Thursday, 21 May 2015

New words for scrabble players!

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/may/21/official-scrabble-book-adds-lotsa-ridic-new-words

Today, an article was posted by the Mirror about the new words the people being the Collins Dictionary have added into the Scrabble dictionary, which are now allowed to be used by scrabble players all over. These words go from "lolz" and "bezzy" all the way to "hacktivist"  and "tweep". The mixture of arcyomns and blends you can tell have all been influenced by technology such as "thanx" being shortened to making texting quicker and words like "facetime" has been influenced from companies like Apple.  and shows how the English Language is changing. This suggests that there is an increasing descriptive approach to language and these forms of non-standard English will be disagreed with by those who still have a prescriptive approach to language. You can see this if you go down to the comment section, there are debates going on.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/01/icymi-english-language-is-changing-faster-than-ever-says-expert

This article, which was put out earlier in the month, supports what is being said about how technology is changing fast because of technology. The editor of Collins even said "The Internet has dominated language change for the last ten years."

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