Essay

There are many similarities and differences between phone text communication and spoken language. There are also, some many ways in which they both influence each other. This essay will explore those similarities, differences, show how they how they have both influenced each other and how it has affected people overall.

One of the big ways phone text communication has affected spoken is if someone says ‘yo’ to someone it would mean that they have a close relationship however, not so close like family because you wouldn’t think you would say to a member of your family ‘yo’, unless they were like a very close cousin. This  first happened when people started getting used to phone text communication and tried to find ways to shorten words so that then it is easier to text. People got so used to using the word that they started using as part of their spoken language. This shows one of the biggest influences in spoken language.

Another point is that abbreviations have become a big thing in peoples lives, words like ‘LoL ( Laugh Out Loud), OMG (Oh My God)’ have been used in spoken language a lot now and mostly to over exaggerate. In the transcript Elmeri says ‘TF’ which most people wouldn’t know what it meant if they hadn’t known the person that was talking. I know the person so I would know that he’s saying ‘The F*#$’. Another example is when people text each other they would say ‘wuu2 (what U (you) up to)’ which most people wouldn’t expect to understand it however abbreviations like ‘TF and wuu2’ wouldn’t be used in spoken language. On the other hand, abbreviations like ‘LoL and OMG’ are used most of the time in spoken languages, so not all text communication is used in spoken language.

As you may see on my blog is a spoken transcript and a phone text transcript you may see some big differences for example there are no abbreviations in the spoken transcript because, people do not find it normal to say just single letters on its own to replace lots of words. Whereas in the text transcript you can see that people are more comfortable using abbreviations and swear words. There are words like ‘OMG’ that people are more comfortable using however it is  like the only abbreviation that people tend to use.

On the other hand, there are words like ‘chill’ or ‘dead’ that we use in spoken and phone text language but they haven’t come from neither of forms, they come from slang. However slang also, depends on where they are from so if someone from London tried to speak slang to someone from Manchester they wouldn’t understand the same would happen if someone from Manchester spoke slang to someone from London they wouldn’t understand either. As a consequence to that people are used to speaking in slang so they do it in phone text language.