This week's copy of the Huddersfield Daily Examiner (everyone's No.1 local paper) features a letter from a rather disgruntled Mr Dennis R Fisher, who makes some heart-felt observations on the 'state' of modern youth slang.
On the one hand Mr Fisher acknowledges that "language naturally changes and evolves over time", but at the same time he observes that "we are now beginning to sound like a nation of infantile losers and potato heads". At the heart of Mr Fisher's argument, it seems, is his view that the English language is being 'eroded' by a generation of speakers whose desire to be just like their favourite celebreties extends to mimicking their linguistic behaviour.
Have a look at the letter and let us know your views - is the English language being damaged beyond repair, or is this just another stage in its natural evolution? If you have something you'd like to say about this topic, why not post a thread on the VLE discussion forum?
1 comment:
Dennis R Fisher clearly has little experience of young people as the majority of the words and phrases he uses as examples are only really used in magazines and other media, and the few which I do hear used by other young people just reflect the way that language has developed throughout time.
I see no point in getting too het up about language changing as it has done, and will continue to do so, but that does not mean that the richness/diversity of the English Language has been cast aside in any way.
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