How Did The Printing Press Change The English Language

The printing press, created by Johann Gutenberg in 1450 altered the course of history and spread of ideas and culture. Politically, the printing press allowed laws to travel and be distributed faster, and government ideas and cultural to spread to other areas. Intellectually, it allowed the sharing of ideas and opinions about the same topic between many different people, and the creation of secular books that influenced many intellectuals. Religiously, the printing press allowed the spread of different religious ideas and vernaculars Bible to everyone. Thus, the development of the printing press altered the political, intellectual, and religious ideas in Europe.

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

Writing has changed in quite a few ways in the last couple of decades. Shakespeare writing is different than something ten years ago, just as something ten years ago is different than something current. The population adapts to the changes that occur within various aspects of society. But, this is because we are always creating new and unique ways to better the world we live in. Facebook and texting are two tools that changed the way we communicate, as well as, the way we write.

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.

Increased use of technology is bringing the decreased use of grammatical uprightness. No one spells out words anymore, it’s just not ‘cool’ or ‘convenient’. When the new technological-reliant generation goes into the real world, and actually has frequent conversations, their grammatical and sentence formulating skills will be below average. A lack of formal linguistic practice

First of all, most people can no longer able to hold a conversation without looking at their phone every few minutes. Our ability to conversant is dwindling due to text lingo. As Nicholas Carr, said 1“Just as there’s a tendency to glorify technological progress, there’s a countertendency to expect the worst of every new tool or machine”. As I was walking through the mall one day I overheard a group of teen girls talking and every few words was either “omg”, “like” or “seriously”. Nowadays, when writing to friends common words are often shortened to save time, but what most people do not realize, is that people develop habits and after so many uses of text lingo the actual way to spell the word goes away.

Online media is pushing literacy in different and cool directions. Kids and teenagers today are coming up with new ways of writing. Clive tells us in The New Literacy,¨The brevity of texting, and status updating, teaches young people to develop haiku-like concision.¨ When kids text they write short and fast things and don't go into much detail. Since we are changing the way we write, in four years from now when we have even more new technology imagine how many more ways of writing there will be. He also says that, ¨For Lunsford, technology isn't killing our ability to write. It's reviving it—and pushing our literacy in bold new directions.¨ But still most people think

Will Swanson 10/12/14 Hour 2 Printing Press The printing press had a major effect on society. It spread information very quickly and accurately. The invention of the printing press helped create a wider literate reading public.

Courtney Treco English 152 November 5, 2014 Is Texting Destroying Our Language? In David Crystals article, 2B or Not 2B, he discusses texting and how it is not destroying language. First in the article Crystals compares his ideas to an article written by John Humphrys, who believes that texting is wrecking language and stated that people who text are “vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. ”(Page

The subject of how technology is changing written English is a touchy subject; many people believe that our current technology is allowing us to become lazy. Text messaging being the ultimate reason we are taking so many short cuts when it comes to writing proper English. There are so many abbreviated words and meanings in text messaging, I sometimes find myself confused when I receive messages from people that I have to google what they are trying to say. I don’t want to respond and assume I know what they are trying say.

This essay is about how English has changed over the years. The essay explores how speaking English has changed, like some people have different ways they speak English and some people have the accent. It has changed in the way we write. Now days in the English language there is over 1 million words. Back then there wasn’t much words. English has changed in text messaging. Like now we make the words shorter like lol that means laugh out loud. They have done that because it’s a quicker way. The first text message was in 1992. English also changed in schools and universities. It has changed by now we have technology to help us find information or search up for meaning on online dictionary. This essay examines how English has changed over the years. There are around 800 to 2000 word that are used to speak the English language.

The printing press was a major invention that was made by a German goldsmith named Johann Gutenberg in 1450. One of the most famous manuscripts, the Gutenberg Bible, was the first manuscript produced by the press. Another invention that changed the world was the internet and computer. The internet was made in 1983 by Robert E. Kahn and Vincent Erff and the computer was made by German Konrad Zuse in 1936-1938. Similar to the extent of the influence of the printing press one hundred years earlier, the internet and the computer have had a large impact on the world. They provide more intellectual knowledge, which increases the economy and spreads social communication around the world. All of which changed how people saw these inventions in a more

It is not hard to observe that new technologies are fundamentally altering the ways in which we communicate in

Texting is a fairly new form of communication that has taken the world by storm. It became popular around 2001, and originally had its limitations, such as the 160-character limit. But now that technology has advanced, texting has followed along and is now a convenient, casual, and a more immediate way of communicating. So naturally, texting has evolved also in terms of the language used within it. We see this mostly in the form of abbreviations and short hand spelled words. Some people argue that texting has ruined the English language. Studies and observations have shown that the benefits of texting and cyber speak are much more broad then expected. Textisms have been shown to increase phonology skills, brain activity, creativity and provide a relatable outlet for students in education.

How has writing and the way we read changed in the last fifty years? Technology, reading, and writing has changed greatly over the last five decades, but how much has it affected our culture? Technology has become our culture, we are cyber culture. We need everything as fast as we can get it, somehow we’ve lost the time through the years to read and write as we once did.