With the turn of the 21st century and the pervasiveness of social media, the use of acronyms has exploded to allow for faster texting, tweeting, etc.: IMHO, OMG, LOL, etc. (PP#29) They are also abbreviating words to create what has been referred to as They will use expressions like “totesing.” (PP#30) “totes or simply abbreviate words such as tradge” (tragic), “totes emosh” (emotional), as in in yog are my at “bluebs” (blueberries) “bluebs favorite snack.” Linguists Graduate Center and the Univ. of Pennsylvania have collected numerous CUNY’s examples of this practice and note that it is sounds and it conforms to the “about sometimes complicated sound system of there are many consonant English.” Thus clusters as in and They are also at the ends “subconch” “aphrodeez.” putting “sh” of words to sound as in Is this bad? Not necessarily since the “cute” “imposh.” users do follow certain phonological rules of English and we have been abbreviating words for a while (legit, delish). One of the main characteristics of any culture is that it is adaptive and the ability of language to change allows the expression of that adaptability. The interesting thing about the youth movements and their vocabularies is that the terms endure though the culture that gave rise to them does not just have to wait to see if any of the recent necessarily. We’ll expressions hang around as long as and “cool” “neat” have. Cultural Competence vs Cultural Performance (PP# 31 )
With the turn of the 21st century and the pervasiveness of social media, the use of acronyms has exploded to allow for faster texting, tweeting, etc.: IMHO, OMG, LOL, etc. (PP#29) They are also abbreviating words to create what has been referred to as “totesing.” (PP#30) They will use expressions like “totes tradge” (tragic), “totes emosh” (emotional), or simply abbreviate words such as “bluebs” (blueberries) as in “bluebs in yog are my favorite snack.” Linguists at CUNY’s Graduate Center and the Univ. of Pennsylvania have collected numerous examples of this practice and note that it is “about sounds and it conforms to the sometimes complicated sound system of English.” Thus there are many consonant clusters as in “subconch” and “aphrodeez.” They are also putting “sh” at the ends of words to sound “cute” as in “imposh.” Is this bad? Not necessarily since the users do follow certain phonological rules of English and we have been abbreviating words for a while (legit, delish). One of the main characteristics of any culture is that it is adaptive and the ability of language to change allows the expression of that adaptability. The interesting thing about the youth movements and their vocabularies is that the terms endure though the culture that gave rise to them does not necessarily. We’ll just have to wait to see if any of the recent expressions hang around as long as “cool” and “neat” have. Cultural Competence vs Cultural Performance (PP# 31 )
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