It’s a matter of research and critical study as to how social media lingo has corrupted English. Here, the issue is not the distortion and mutilation of English. Always brings to mind the anecdote of the Englishman who was asked, ‘What is time?’ (when the user actually wanted to ask, What is the time?) and was met with the response – ‘What a profoundly philosophical question!’ Otherwise, it is going to mean war was in the post or haste was taking the snail-mail route when one is reading it.Īs for doing away with the definite article even where it is needed, in the hurry to cut copies, it could be the subject of another article. Unless one means a pillar or a lamp post, the word, used in the sense of after must always take a hyphen. Using post instead of saying after has gained so much credence, one cannot even begin to remember how it began. Yours truly has got this stock message even from innumerable editors and copy-editors, supposed to be the custodians of languages. ‘I’ll revert’ and ‘revert back’ are so common, one is made to feel foolish for doing a double-take at such usage. But social media has made it come to mean: I’ll get back to you. What revert actually means is to get back to the earlier state (that old editorial injunction to ‘stet’). Then that other popular usage, ‘I’ll revert’. Evidently, those offering their condolences are too much on the move and cannot be sufficiently moved enough to type out these three simple words. Everyone writes in messages: ‘He expired’, as if he were a commodity! To commiserate, they routinely eviscerate, by going ‘RIP’. Until 2000, no standard dictionary stated that ‘expire’ meant ‘to die’ as well. You can see the lexicographers’ note - that these are internet usages. Though many incorrect words have been incorporated by Oxford University Press, it doesn’t mean the corrupt connotations of these words are acceptable. ‘Expire’ (rampantly used in the context of someone’s death), ‘back’, ‘revert’, the most obnoxious ‘prepone’, instead of ‘advance’, ‘awesome’, ‘amazing’ etc. New words with corrupt meanings have come into being. The apostrophe and punctuation marks have almost vanished. Neuro-linguists are of the view that instant messaging is destroying English. But here, the focus is on English and its rapid decline. So very true! In the last three decades, emails, Facebook and now, WhatsApp, Twitter, Instagram and whatnots have brought about a drastic change to the structure and grammar of not just English but of all languages. LotsOfWords knows 480,000 words.A recent study conducted by Britain’s Lancaster University reveals that owing to various social platforms, English is losing its basic grammar and a new kind of English is (d)evolving. National Scrabble Association, and the Collins Scrabble Words used in the UK (about 180,000 words each). The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD) from Merriam-Webster, the Official Tournament and Club Word List (OTCWL / OWL / TWL) from the Please note: the Wiktionary contains many more words - in particular proper nouns and inflected forms: plurals of nouns and past tense of verbs - than other English language dictionaries such as Words and their definitions are from the free English dictionary Wiktionary published under the free licenceĬreative Commons attribution share-alike. Potential litterature) such as lipograms, pangrams, anagrams, univocalics, uniconsonantics etc. To play Scrabble, Words With Friends, hangman, the longest word, and forĬreative writing: rhymes search for poetry, and words that satisfy constraints from the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (OuLiPo: workshop of You can use it for many word games: to create or to solve crosswords, arrowords (crosswords with arrows), word puzzles, Lots of Words is a word search engine to search words that match constraints (containing or not containing certain letters, starting or ending letters,
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