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I can't be trusted with Google's texting app
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 19.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Google, language threat, texting, word/writing, youth
Summary | Google's new Allo app is supposed to make you save time while you're texing, but it can sometimes lead to misunderstandings. The author of the article doesn't really like emojis and doesn't know how to use them well. She doesn't follow young people's digital habits. Their generation favors brevity, which can have a negative impact on language.
Image Description | Photograph of two young girls on their smartphones, two smartphones displaying chat conversations, and a man standing in front of a screen displaying "Allo" and "Duo".
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone, text
Words are getting shorter due to social media as 'Jomo' and 'mic drop' feature on word of the year list
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 3.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | social media, spelling, texting, word/writing
Summary | With social media and texting, it seems that words are getting shorter. For instance, “jomo” stands for the “joy of missing out”; the acronym has been included on the Collins list of words that have seen a significant rise in usage. Other terms are: mic drop, throw shade, sharenting, uberisation, or dude food.
Image Description | Photograph of a group of people cheering, video of Obama dropping his mic, and photograph of Trump smiling
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Boaty McBoatface shows we shouldn’t always listen to the public, says Bank of England chief economist
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 31.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | politics, word/writing
Summary | The public should not always be asked. In the public poll about the name for a new research ship the name Boaty McBoatface won with 80 per cent of the votes - this as an example of how internet crowds can develop "madness". Similarly, the public should not be allowed to vote on financial politics they do not understand. Bankers also have to learn to break down their language so that common people understand what they mean. "Prices and jobs" will resonate much better with the broad public than "inflation and employment". Also, the fewer adjectives and adverbs there are, the easier the message is to understand.
Image Description | Image of a ship, a banker, and an empty marmite shelf.
Image Tags | male(s)
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