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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
So, Is That a Thing?
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 16.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | language threat, smartphone
Summary | The smartphone keeps us on the running at all times up to the point that we are overflooded with information on a daily basis. No wonder that the phrase "is that a thing?" makes sense to most people today. It is a lazy way to express that something is a significant state of affairs.
Image Description | Collage art abstractly illustrating "a thing" versus "not a thing".
Image Tags | text
Los emoticonos invaden nuestra conversación
(Emoticons are invading our conversation)
Newspaper | El País
Date | 18.10.2016
Language | Spanish
Country | Spain
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, word/writing, youth
Summary | Craig Federighi claimed that the chidren of tomorrow won't be know how to write with words anymore. The problem does not only lie in the use of abbreviations, but also in the rise of emojis. Now, if you text someone, you can substitue words with emojis. It seems that using emojis in our conversations is a very efficient way to communicate.
Image Description | Video about the use of emojis and image of an Apple keyboard and a new text
Image Tags | emojis, keyboard, text
¿Limitan los emoticonos nuestra capacidad de expresión?
(Do emojis limit our capacity to express ourselves?)
Newspaper | El País
Date | 27.10.2016
Language | Spanish
Country | Spain
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, translation
Summary | The fact that Fred Benenson translated Moby Dick in emojis actually reflects the importance of emojis in today's society. Our keyboards can already offer emoji alternatives to written words. After thousands of years of progress, are we regressing back to the Egyptian time? Some people fear that the rise of emoji might limit our capacity to express ourselves and lead us to simplicity. Those who defend emojis claim that they are the natural result of the evolution of communication.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand holding a smartphone; on the screen there is a text conversation with emojis
Image Tags | emojis, hand(s), smartphone, text
«Jpp», «wtf», «oklm»... maîtrisez-vous le parler jeune?
("Jpp", "wtf", "oklm"... do you master teenagers' language?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 25.8.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | abbreviations, language threat, texting, youth
Summary | Young people tend to use a lot of words and abbreviations that are unintelligible, according to many parents and professors. Their language is very creative and is influenced by our ancestors' language. Writer Stéphane Ribeiro claims that young people's language is a melting pot; it is a mix of American and historical expressions. Moreover, the language used by today's youth has been influenced by new technologies and the texting culture. It is not a threat to the French language; language is constantly changing and evolving
Image Description | Photograph of five young people looking happy, screenshots of two tweets depicting the use of abbreviations, and "Top Wesh" video.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), text, Twitter
L’emoji, un caractère envahissant
(The emoji, an invading character)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 10.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat
Summary | The Unicode Consortium (UC) was accused of spending too much time on emojis and not enough time on minority languages. Michael Everson complained because his propositions (e.g. coding medieval punctuation marks) have been ignored by the UC. However, the UC only counts 1500 emojis out of 120000 characters. Accoding to linguist Gretchen McCulloch, emojis are not a fully-fledge language; they are a complement to language.
Image Description | Screenshot of a new text message with with many different emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, text
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