As Henry Hitchings said in his article Punctuation, Social Media, and Evolving Rules of Communication, the modernization of punctuation in today is not a bad thing, "the reality is that language evolves in conduction with culture". Twitter has many characteristics that make it not only unique but beneficial to the modern day writer. The 140 word count helps people move away from being wordy because as Henry Hitchings says "why would you waste any of your precious characters on 'very' or 'really' when you could say something more substantial?". This is in fact a great tip to live by as you're are writing, because I myself have been told the same thing numerous times in English class. Also, contrary to popular belief, Twitter is not used solely by unintelligent people. People like the famous poet Andre Gibson use twitter to convey their ideas to a large population in a very quick fashion, which allows for immediate feed back. Punctuation is changing due to the growth of our society, which like the english language, is always subject to change. Sunday, November 16, 2014
Modernization
The English language has been changing since the time it was created. From the era of shakespeare to our present day twitter obsessions, our english language has changed and our punctuation rules should change to reflect this societal progression. Punctuation is very important to the construction and understanding of our sentences and speech. A single comma can change the entirety of a sentence. The sentence "We invited the strippers, JFK, and Stalin" could have a completely different meaning due to a single oxford comma "We invited the strippers, JFK and Stalin".
As Henry Hitchings said in his article Punctuation, Social Media, and Evolving Rules of Communication, the modernization of punctuation in today is not a bad thing, "the reality is that language evolves in conduction with culture". Twitter has many characteristics that make it not only unique but beneficial to the modern day writer. The 140 word count helps people move away from being wordy because as Henry Hitchings says "why would you waste any of your precious characters on 'very' or 'really' when you could say something more substantial?". This is in fact a great tip to live by as you're are writing, because I myself have been told the same thing numerous times in English class. Also, contrary to popular belief, Twitter is not used solely by unintelligent people. People like the famous poet Andre Gibson use twitter to convey their ideas to a large population in a very quick fashion, which allows for immediate feed back. Punctuation is changing due to the growth of our society, which like the english language, is always subject to change.
As Henry Hitchings said in his article Punctuation, Social Media, and Evolving Rules of Communication, the modernization of punctuation in today is not a bad thing, "the reality is that language evolves in conduction with culture". Twitter has many characteristics that make it not only unique but beneficial to the modern day writer. The 140 word count helps people move away from being wordy because as Henry Hitchings says "why would you waste any of your precious characters on 'very' or 'really' when you could say something more substantial?". This is in fact a great tip to live by as you're are writing, because I myself have been told the same thing numerous times in English class. Also, contrary to popular belief, Twitter is not used solely by unintelligent people. People like the famous poet Andre Gibson use twitter to convey their ideas to a large population in a very quick fashion, which allows for immediate feed back. Punctuation is changing due to the growth of our society, which like the english language, is always subject to change. 
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I also agree that punctuation rules are changing in an evolving society. I like that you used a lot of evidence and you proved that people use different language by introducing Twitter.
ReplyDeleteYou used a lot of evidence to prove that Twitter isn't as bad as a lot of people make it out to be. Even though my blog was against twitter, I do agree with you and I do love twitter too haha. Nice job, Devin!
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