The free website to help new writers to develop, and to help talented writers get noticed and published Books
   
Back to the 70's or earlier << Return To Main Site

 Welcome to the YouWriteOn Forum

**2012 News Random House & Orion Editors to continue free reviews of YouWriteOn Top Ten Writers each month  - publishers of many of the world's bestselling authors 

YouWriteOn Authors' Hall of Fame Congratulations to our many authors achieving sales and signings successes through  Waterstones, WHSmith and others! View Hall of Fame
     

YouWriteOn Message Board > Literary Forums > NEW - The Not About Books Tavern Help Search Recent Posts
Back to the 70's or earlier
Page < 1 2 3 4 Last : 5 Start New Topic Reply To Topic
Lin Lee Liu
 23 Mar 2010, 03:31 #84506 Reply To Post
Being understood by one another, does not make them articulate.

Yes, it does.

You don't speak Swahili, right? Just because you don't spend your days among speakers of Swahili does not mean that those Swahilis are not perfectly articulate.

Any lack of comprehension, in both cases, resides in the hearer.

Onto why this may be the case? Because there has never been a greater difference between generations as the difference between current parents and their teens.

We unwisely stick a whole bunch of 14 year olds together in the one room, and so the inherent characteristics of being 14 are magnified. They sound more and more like each other, less and less like their elders.

Even at the dinner table, they're texting their mates. After dinner, they're onto Skype. By nine o'clock the next morning, there they are again, spending all day with their peers.

No wonder their own language has developed a life of its own.
Marita Hansen
 23 Mar 2010, 07:27 #84507 Reply To Post
Gidday my Aussie mate, you must be lonely here on the message board all by yourself. The Brits are all sleeping. Dunno what the Yanks are doing. You awake, Denna?

This post was last edited by Marita Hansen, 23 Mar 2010, 07:36
Lin Lee Liu
 23 Mar 2010, 08:40 #84512 Reply To Post
Yeah, Sulcus hardly ever sleeps but the rest of them are a pack of lazies. Always sleeping during the day!
sulcus
 23 Mar 2010, 13:43 #84545 Reply To Post
Quote: Lin Lee Liu, Tuesday, 23 Mar 2010 03:31
Being understood by one another, does not make them articulate.

Yes, it does.

You don't speak Swahili, right? Just because you don't spend your days among speakers of Swahili does not mean that those Swahilis are not perfectly articulate.

Any lack of comprehension, in both cases, resides in the hearer.

Onto why this may be the case? Because there has never been a greater difference between generations as the difference between current parents and their teens.

We unwisely stick a whole bunch of 14 year olds together in the one room, and so the inherent characteristics of being 14 are magnified. They sound more and more like each other, less and less like their elders.

Even at the dinner table, they're texting their mates. After dinner, they're onto Skype. By nine o'clock the next morning, there they are again, spending all day with their peers.

No wonder their own language has developed a life of its own.


Your Swahili example doesn't answer it. Yes kids can communicate, but through virtually non-lingual means (hence my cicadias comment). They are not quite down there in the language abyss yet, but give it a couple more generations at the current rate of degradation of linguistic expression...

There has already been a significant change, whereby negotiation in language has been elbowed out by posture and facing down through the tone kids use. The aim being to present a facade of inviolability. A sort of verbal bludgeoning. Read the plays of David Mamet to find their best representation in art (though he was writing about adults, but now more universally acquired among the young).
"A,B&E", "Not In My Name" and "52FF" (flash fiction anthology) all available on Amazon Kindle

"How a psychopath makes sweet love. I can get you ringside. Royal box even."
Page < 1 2 3 4 Last : 5 Add To My Topic Watch List Start New Topic Reply To Topic
Server Time: 17 May 2012, 03:40

Powered by Zarr Forums

5 Database Read(s) - 0.250 seconds

 

Adverts provided by Google and not endorsed by YouWriteOn.com.