Gretchen Mcculloch's Will We All Speak Emoji Language?

Bettering the credibility to text, you don’t even have to talk and can still express your emotions with emoticons when you send a message. “Scientists have discovered that when we look at a smiley face

In the article “2b or not 2b”, David Crystal begins with discussing how others such as John Humphry argued that texters are “vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbors 800 years ago. They are destroying it” (335). This is also the common belief of most people. People often argue about the bad points of technology over our language. However, Crystal believes that texting can improve children’s ability to read and write rather than hinder their literacy as many people claim. He also argues that not all texting are done in abbreviated words. Complex messages and institutional messages are often texted in standard form of

The advancement of technology has limited the ability to communicate non-verbally. Non-verbal communication is the main channel of communicating as it helps in expressing and interpreting others. It comprises of cues such as facial expressions, postures and gestures. Nowadays, people are using e-mails, texts and social networking sites to interact as well as express themselves. As in “Why Gen-Y Johnny Can’t Read Non-Verbal Cues,” Mark analyzes ,”We live in a culture where young people- outfitted with iPhone and laptop and devoting hours every evening from age 10 onward to messaging of one kind and another- are ever less likely to develop the “silent fluency” that comes from face-to-face interaction” (146). The disadvantage of using technology as a means to communicate with others is people tend to lose fluency in non-verbal cues, as a result misunderstand and offend others. Any number of emoticons used by people cannot measure their depth of their feelings. Non-Verbal aspect of communication should not be replaced by the advancement of

It is stated that The Emoji Code condemns The Emoji movie as it portrays emojis as a language, however Evan’s views it as a tool, which is considered an addition and not a threat. The article mentions that the reason that emojis are vastly used is because of its flexibility, meaning that there is no specific way to use them. For example the writer of the emoji could use it with a certain meaning but the recipient could interpret an extremely different message. An example mentioned was when the singer Drake got a tattoo and people thought it was two hands praying or even a high five, however Drake soon addressed the situation by confirming that his tattoo was indeed praying hands. It is also mentioned that people have associated certain emojis to specific actions. For instance a car emoji can represent people commuting, sunglasses on a smiling face can represent coolness, a winking face can represent that the message was intended to be humorous and many more emojis have many more meanings. Initially, emojis were intended for a specific purpose, but eventually began being used for fun and a way for people to express themselves. Towards the end of the article Alex French, a reporter for The New York Times states that a popular business in Hollywood is taking existing work and converting it into a fresh story. In a recent study it was shown that the only purely

Both authors point out the negative reasons of using “too much” internet and less interaction with people. Because people lose their focus from doing the work. Carr offers concern by stating how writing few pages is hard and reading long articles has become difficult. Car writes, “Even a blog post of more than three or four paragraphs is too much to absorb. I skim it” (55). Even he has become the victim of online browsing and not able to write long articles, which shows how he has problems focusing on writing a blog. More easiness has made people lazier because people do not have to put extra effort to do any tasks. Therefore, Carr says that some people would save a long article to read it later, but the chances are less that people actually go back and finish it (55). He also shows how people may forget to work on something they had saved for later while doing something online. However, they tend to forget it because some may get distracted from scrolling through one link to another which slips out of their mind. Bauerlein would strongly agree with Carr that people are becoming more distracted and technology-like. Bauerlein also shows the concern that people use fake facial expression to describe their expression. He argues that people send “smileys” and “emoji’s” when they send text messages on phones or inserts an emoji on Facebook, but their actual expression could be completely different and no one would figure it out (77). It prevents people from knowing a person very well because they could have a totally different perspective about them over the phones. Bauerlein describes his concern that people are not at their benefits when they talk through “emoji’s” on the phone because they would not be able to figure out a person’s hand movements when they talk about certain things or their actual facial

We as a society are evolving with each generation to come. We are getting stronger, faster, and smarter. Just as cell phones are no longer square blocks with numbers on them and TV’s are not in black and white, writing itself has also evolved. Once upon a time many wrote and spoke in a Shakespearean form of language and over the years it has evolved into something we call modern English. In recent years, technology has advanced greatly and cell phones have become one of our primary use of communication. With cell phones came a new form of writing called text messaging. Text messaging is used to send short, concise messages to anyone around the world. Often times text messages involve the use of abbreviations which stand for different things and also involves frequent use of emoji’s as a form of expression. This form of writing is now considered informal writing and is not acceptable in academic settings. In Michaela Cullington’s essay “Does Texting Affect Writing?” she touches on both sides of whether texting is hindering students writing or if it’s actually having a positive effect. She then makes is clear that she believes most students are educated enough to know when text speak is appropriate and when it’s not so therefore it has no effect on students. Although, I agree with her thesis, she lacks credibility due to her insufficient evidence. In addition, I also believe

Over the year’s technology has evolved drastically. Technology that involves social media play a huge role in the way people interacts with one another especially when it comes to grammar. Most people communicate using their computers, mobile device or tablets. As technology is changing so has the language. Social media is one of the main forms of communicating with people. Sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Youtube are major social media outlets that are used daily to communicate with individuals near or far. It has formed language using mainly acronyms and emojis (pictures). Emojis has become popular in the past few

As time goes on, everything that we do in life modernises alongside us. Many people hold the opinion that ‘old fashioned’ methods of language use were more caring and creative, and that modern technology allows us to simply be ‘lazy’. However by looking at examples of texting, and/or web-based interaction, I will be able to show that modern language use can too be very creative.

Has our “text,” language ruined our actual language? The author of 2b or not 2b is written by David Crystal. Throughout his article Crystal argues about the benefits of texting and how texting is not a new thing. David Crystal uses two rhetorical strategies to prove his argument, one being humor to compare two types of poems that were sent through text message, the other using analogy to compare schooling, and texting, and the last his using analogy to compare abbreviations that are used today, were used in history.

Emojis are a big part of our society. Emoji’s should be used, for people to have emotion in written communication. An article published by Los Angeles Times states, “But emojis quickly surpassed emoticon use for two key reasons: There’s a lot more people can communicate with emojis. “I can make an emoji that’s a whale or a penguin,” said Internet language expert Gretchen McCulloch.”I don’t even know how I would do that with emoticons”. McCulloch is saying that he didn’t know how emotion would be like without emojis. And how everyone uses them in everyday life. An article made by Big Think, and written by Orion Jones saying, “Because the tone of a conversation affects how we react, and because physical cues help set tone, emoticons are much

Bourree Lam, Associate editor of a magazine called The Atlantic, and University of Chicago Grad wrote an article addressing a new form of written communication that is becoming popular at an extreme rate; Emoji. The Article’s purpose is to explain that emoji is slowly making its way to the workplace. With the innovation of electronic communication came new challenges. These challenges include conveying tone through a toneless medium like email or texting. She suggests that emoji can be useful to solve this problem. Often times when emailing or texting another person you can say something and worry that the other person may take it the wrong way or assume a negative tone. Lam argues, with many sources to back her up like a career coach who works with Millennials, a socio-linguist at the University of Pittsburgh, and A Scandinavian study on email in the workplace, that emoji is extremely useful to lighten an otherwise seemingly negative or combative message. Will Schwalbe, co-author of an email etiquette book, explains that “The biggest

Additionally, acronyms are found in every social media platform and conversations. By shortening terms such as “On my way” to “OMW” parallel the efforts in 1984. Even emoticons and replacing words such as “you” to “u” are popular in our culture. Although our language has diminished, it is not to prevent any type of crime, rather it is lessening our thought process. Bossche states “a whole generation of youth is being dumbed down by their aversion to reading anything of substance and their addiction to digital substance via social media” (Bossche) Another researcher claims that “with the sense of urgency and fast pace of the minimal messages it is less likely for individuals to review their texts before hitting send” (Beale).

As Stewart Wessel tries to text to his father he has a difficult time telling him that “my birthday party will not be on Sunday because I work late that day, but it will be on Saturday at 7pm and we will be eating ice cream at the Dairy Queen that is about two blocks away from my place.” Unfortunately Mr. Wessel is stuck, there isn’t an emoji to say that and it just will take too much of his time to type what needs to be said. In response, the Unicode Consortium who handles all the text characters has said they would immediately add this emoji to the next specification to prevent anyone else encountering this issue. Stewart Wessel said, “I’m glad that next time I need to tell my dad this I can do it with one emoji because I only use emoji.”

How old were you when you got your first phone? Did texting come naturally to you? If asking your great grandfather what LOL means he would more than likely reply with asking you what language you were speaking. Over the years we have come to see a drastic evolution between texting and how we communicate verbally to one another. A linguist and prolific author David Crystal expresses the idea of technology advancements in texting, as evidence in his piece, published in 2008 in the Guardian a London Daily, “2b or Not 2b?”. Crystal uses factual evidenced throughout his article to introduce the concept that, “In texting what we are seeing, in a small way, is language in evolution” (par. 31). His knowledge towards this linguistic phenomenon may be valid due to multiple factual evidence provided.

Recently, emojis have entered the texting world and has changed the way communication is interpreted. Imagine getting a text and not being able to interpret whether the other person is upset or is joking around with you. As if someone texted you “What the heck?” and you have no idea whether they are angry or laughing about the situation. Which is where emojis are excellent use for communicating when you need to show the emotion you are having when you send a text. In the article, “Should that frown be upside down? Emojis make the meaning clear” by Tracey Lien explains the importance of emojis and how they can make a difference in the way individuals comprehend the message.