How the English language is changing over time

How the English language is changing over time

Unsurprisingly, the English language is being revolutionized from what it originally was, with the increasingly frequent formality of younger generations having access to technology and social media, which seems has made a substantial influence on the growth of slang and informal language being a recurrent factor in their day to day vocabulary.

With the world of technology advancing and an increasing number of people using social media and instant messaging, a growing patois seems to be looming over users, brainwashing them into using this new language brimming with slang and non-formal English. With the teenage generation being the guilty party everyone seems to be blaming for what some people are calling a 'catastrophe' because of the decline of how the English language is valued, over 85% of parents of teenage social media users claim that it seems their children use a completely different language when on the online world, consequently feeling bewildered at the language used.

Many slang words such as 'bae' and acronyms such as 'ICYMI' (in case you missed it) are unheard of for the older generations, whereas other acronyms such as 'yolo' and 'lol' have been heard of, suggesting that the use of these are really sweeping over Britain because of instant messaging and social media sites, as adults have even come across certain acronyms.

Even football pundits speaking on television or the whole world to see have been guilty of falling into a trap of using non-standard English. Jamie Redknapp has previously used the word literally a number of times, for example, "he had to cut back inside on to his left, because he literally doesn't have a right foot". For a man who isn't classed as the younger generation anymore, and the fact that he appears on tv to a wide audience frequently indicates that he should know what standard English to use, but the world of social media (which a lot of celebrities use) and the advancing world of technology has impacted on him.