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«Les lettres d'amour sont toujours révolutionnaires»
("Love letters are still revolutionary")
Newspaper | La Tribune de Genève
Date | 3.12.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | gender, texting, threat, word/writing
Summary | Philippe Brenot has been studying people's ways of sharing love for more than thirty years. He noticed some gender differences; for instance, women like to save love letters close to themselves whereas men save theirs in binders. Moreover, women don't write about their lover's body, whereas descriptions of female bodies are omnipresent in men's letters. However, in text messages, women are more likely to be straightforward. Brenot claims that love letters are not disappearing with new technologies. People still send each other love messages and save them.
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L'écriture sous toutes ses formes
(Writing in all its forms)
Newspaper | 24 heures
Date | 24.2.2017
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | texting, word/writing, youth
Summary | Texting and abbreviations are more and more common. People, especially the youth, think less before they write. Sylvie Guggenheim claims that we need to get back to the basics and place writing at the center. Thus, she organized a showroom with workshops, conferences, and expositions in order to gather all the writing professionals.
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Erik Orsenna: «N'oublions jamais qu'une langue est un cadeau!»
(Erik Orsenna: "Let's never forget that a language is a gift!")
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 9.3.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | language threat, spelling, texting, word/writing
Summary | Writer Erik Orsenna talks about language and why it shapes us. He talks about the new French spelling reforms, the French Academy, the relationship between language and people's identity, rap music, useless anglicisms, and texting.
Image Description | Photograph of interviewee Erik Orsenna
Image Tags | male(s)
Comment donner le goût de la lecture?
(How to instill the love of reading?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 20.3.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | childhood, school, spelling, texting, threat, word/writing
Summary | Teenagers don't read a lot. This is not new, but nowadays texting and social networks are a priority among young people. They want immediacy, community, and noise, and reading equals silence, long time, and solitude. Young people read differently, which is why Bayard decided to focus on short stories instead of novels. Elementary schools are experimenting something new: the reading machine. Users can alternate on a tablet reading and listening phases.
Image Description | Photograph of an open book
Le point à la fin du SMS: un mauvais signe
(A period at the end of a text: a bad sign)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 5.1.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | abbreviations, misunderstanding, punctuation, spelling, texting, word/writing
Summary | Texting is becoming very popular among younger people who will soon be getting their smartphone transplanted on their hand. The language of texting is "cool", does not necessarily follow traditional rules, uses phonetics and abbreviations. Moreover, to replace the tone of voice and other nonverbal cues that are lacking in writing, people use emoticons. Now, it seems that adding a period at the end of a text can lead to misunderstandings.
Image Description | Photograph of a businessman walking and looking at his phone
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
D'où vient l'acronyme Osef ?
(Where does the acronym Osef come from?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 15.12.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | hashtags, texting, Twitter, word/writing, youth
Summary | The term "osef" seems to be very popular among teenagers nowadays. It means "on s'en fout" (we don't care). The expression was born on Twitter and was preceded by a hashtag or mot-dièse (the English term won).
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L'usage des mots
(The use of words)
Newspaper | Le Temps
Date | 13.2.2015
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | texting, threat, word/writing
Summary | People tend to misuse certain words in order to be politically correct, but this is not necessarily a good thing. For example, saying “Daech” instead of “Islamic state” leads to a denial of any religious affiliation –in this case: Islam. People also intentionally misuse certain words, which is the consequence of a shrunken vocabulary imbued with text message features. As a result, emotions and thoughts are not as rich.
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Image Tags | female(s)
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