![]() ![]() Makes perfect sense.īut then I started to wonder: am I contributing to the ongoing erosion of the English language? Text-speak is already controversial many believe it’s changing the fabric of written language and destroying young people’s abilities to form coherent sentences. Too busy to type “I’m so excited by your news! How thrilling that you’re becoming a mother!”? Just send a quick monkey covering its mouth and a cone spraying confetti into the air. Don’t want to write “I LUV U”? Send a quick kissy face. We all know that popup keypad is fickle it’s a notoriously annoying feature that is rife with kinks. What is wrong with me?Īt first, I thought emojis were wonderful: tiny, economical packets of pixelated ideas that could be rapidly exchanged without the need to type out words or ideas on my iPhone’s touchscreen keypad. Now, in my thirties, I’m exchanging text messages with friends and coworkers, and the majority of my missives contain tiny images of cartoon faces expressing a range of emotions, jungle animals, lipstick, firearms, and the most adorable explosions and thunderstorms you’ve ever seen. My boyfriend thinks I’m receding into my wasted adolescence: I missed the “cute” years because I was busy being an extremely studious, risk-averse, and uncharacteristically serious teenager. I’m a grown woman and a professional writer. What is this scourge in which I am a willing (if guilty) participant? It’s the cutest scourge EVAR! Emojis. And yet, I believe I am an active participant in a trend that is contributing to the destruction of not just the English language, but written language in general. I’m a writer and a wordsmith I was raised to love words and the complex emotions, ideas, and concepts that they can convey. Kathryn Cunningham business writing, emoji, english language, textspeak ![]()
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