The Future?????

[ReaperPkk]

Should Slang be unwatched, what do you think our future would be like?????  

[The Man who was Thursday]

Maybe I'm just tired, but I don't understand what you mean.

Or maybe I do and there's already a thread for it.  

[Requiem Dare]

If you mean internet slang, I think the internet will become a cold, idiotic world of insanity.  

[DemonessRose]

Technically...(if I spelled that right...) slang is already unwatched. It is at the point where even teachers are using slang and believe me I have heard it. Slang has reached into the doors from Tim Horton Drive thru's to office buildings. Heck! Politicians even use slang now and again. I for one, as well as most of us are probably guilty for a bit of slang here and there. Should slang get so bad, that the Oxford Dictionary no longer serves us a purpose, will be the day English will no longer be the universal language and the language we once knew, will be a laughing stalk....

Hey, that would make a great movie!!!  

[MadnessFreak]

In the future, everyone's writing will be so illegible, Syntax errors on out already nonsensical computers will make more sense.  

[Yokushi]

In my opinion, I look at it from a positive point of view. Language is an ever changing thing; and I believe that, in our history, people in every generation change it just a little. If you look at what English was 20, 30, 50 years ago, you will find slang that was used that fell into oblivion, and maybe other words that have stuck. If you see what our language was more than 50 years ago, you will almost not recognize it at all. Books from those times have been rewritten to match a language that we will be familiar with.
Shakespeare wrote in slang, Shakespeare invented slang; and people read it and people loved it and he reinvented the language of his time.
Chaucer as well wrote in a way that people from his time would understand. We read the original versions of everything they wrote and it seems weird and classical and fancy in our eyes; but it was normal for them.
Slang has always been unwatched and it has helped evolve our many beautiful languages since the beginning of time. Slang will always be unwatched. And it will continue to aid in the evolution of our language.
Any slang that doesn't stick will simply be forgotten in time. And the rest will shape the way people will be speaking 10 to 20 years from now.  

[little_evil_goth]

By that time it will no longer matter because it will be the new English. I like to use slang when I talk; It's the language of our generation. I don't take it to the extreme of wannabe gansta like so many kid's want to do, but as part of that generation I also have a part in creating it, therefore I use it.
Certainly when it goes to talking like incomprehensible idiots you yourself will not use it, and there will always be those who will preserve it. So it's not an epidemic. Who wants to control it all? I say let it follow it's own path.  

[KayJuran]

Yokushi

In my opinion, I look at it from a positive point of view. Language is an ever changing thing; and I believe that, in our history, people in every generation change it just a little. If you look at what English was 20, 30, 50 years ago, you will find slang that was used that fell into oblivion, and maybe other words that have stuck. If you see what our language was more than 50 years ago, you will almost not recognize it at all. Books from those times have been rewritten to match a language that we will be familiar with.
Shakespeare wrote in slang, Shakespeare invented slang; and people read it and people loved it and he reinvented the language of his time.
Chaucer as well wrote in a way that people from his time would understand. We read the original versions of everything they wrote and it seems weird and classical and fancy in our eyes; but it was normal for them.
Slang has always been unwatched and it has helped evolve our many beautiful languages since the beginning of time. Slang will always be unwatched. And it will continue to aid in the evolution of our language.
Any slang that doesn't stick will simply be forgotten in time. And the rest will shape the way people will be speaking 10 to 20 years from now.

I agree with everything this guy says here.  

[xKira-Killerx]

I am VERY worried about the whole slang thing. Things like aint and yall are already in the dictionary!! > sad  

[The Man who was Thursday]

Actually, Canterbury Tales looks horribly written. It doesn't look "fancy" at all.  

[Yokushi]

Judas lscariot

Actually, Canterbury Tales looks horribly written. It doesn't look "fancy" at all.

Actually, I am not refering to Canterbury Tales specifically. Chaucer wrote many things in his time. Basically, I was naming one author of many to make a point. And it is actually only in your opinion that it doesn't look fancy. I respect it, but it's only what you think.

KayJuran

I agree with everything this guy says here.

Thanks. xd I really believe in my opinion of it, and I'm glad to know you think the same.  

[The Man who was Thursday]

Yokushi

Judas lscariot

Actually, Canterbury Tales looks horribly written. It doesn't look "fancy" at all.

Actually, I am not refering to Canterbury Tales specifically. Chaucer wrote many things in his time. Basically, I was naming one author of many to make a point. And it is actually only in your opinion that it doesn't look fancy. I respect it, but it's only what you think.

KayJuran

I agree with everything this guy says here.

Thanks. xd I really believe in my opinion of it, and I'm glad to know you think the same.

Quote:

Whan that Arcite to Thebes comen was,
Ful ofte a day he swelte and seyde `Allas,'
For seen his lady shal he nevere mo;
And shortly to concluden al his wo,
So muche sorwe hadde nevere creature,
That is, or shal whil that the world may dure.

Quote:

With this he took his leve, and hom he wente;
And lord, so he was glad and wel bygon!

Very fancy. It looks to me like somebody who really needs to learn to spell was trying to play with his sentence structure a bit.  

[ManillaFolder]

Our future will be horrible and indiscribably horrific enough to not care.

~ManillaFolder~  

[Zee Zee Top]

For the record, slang has already invaded our dictionary. Webster's has words like, "bootylicious".  

[Lady Fenrys]

Alabang

For the record, slang has already invaded our dictionary. Webster's has words like, "bootylicious".

You've got to be kidding me.