TRANSLATION AND MEDIA 3RD WEEK

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Are Digital Media Changing Language? Naomi S. Baron

It's natural for languages to evolve. But what should really concern us is the way computers and mobile phones are changing our attitudestoward language.

Are instant messaging and text messaging killing language? To hear what the popular media say, a handful of OMGs (oh my god) and smiley faces, along with a paucity of capital letters and punctuation marks, might be bringing English to its knees.

Although journalists tend to sensationalize the linguistic strangeness of "online lingo," quantitative analyses of instant messaging conversations and text messages reveal that abbreviations, acronyms, and even misspellings are comparatively infrequent, at least among college-age students. For example, in a study I did of college students' instant messaging conversations, out of 11,718 words, only 31 were "online lingo" abbreviations, and only 90 were acronyms (of which 76 were LOL). In a study of college students' text messaging, my colleague Rich Ling and I found a few more lexical shortenings; yet the grand total of clear abbreviations was only 47 out of 1,473 words, which is hardly overwhelming.

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar09/vol66/num06/Are-Digital-Media-Changing...

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