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This blog will be my responses to topical issues about the English Language. We have already explored a topical debate about Americanisms in British English. 
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What the F*ck

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The English language has a many a swear word and most of us take great advantage of this.   According to statistics swear words make up about .7% of a person’s vocabulary. That doesn’t seem like a lot but in the grand scheme of things, a.k.a. all the absolutely useless words that we all know, its quite a significant number. Its proven that children tend to know at least one swear word before they know the alphabet at around 4-6 years old which is admittedly very amusing but also shows how integral swearing is to our everyday speech. I happen to think swearing enriches our language and can greatly assist in conveying emotion. My favourite and definitely most used swear word is the ever charming ‘fuck’ as it can mean so many things in different contexts. For example, to show something/someone is good, bad, painful or just when everything just goes horribly wrong. It’s a go-to really. Swearing helps us to communicate effectively. It doesn’t only show our meaning in a sentence b...
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It's That Damn Phone

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With the constant evolution of the English Language over time, it was inevitable that with new technology would come a new way of speaking- especially for the younger generations. As always anything that's not as its always been will upset a few of the 'old fashioned' people intent on preserving the language that they know. The best example of the language changing with the use of technology is 'text speak'. Most people who have social medias now a days will have seen or written words that have stemmed directly from the use of mobile phone texting. Older phones had a lengthy and irritating way of getting the letter you needed and without the use of the ever-helpful auto-correct we of course found a way around this. Words like 'your' got shortened to 'ur' and phrases like 'be right back' became 'brb' - initialism; pronouncing the first letter of a group of words separately. Although it’s now much faster to text and we have the ca...
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