Urban Language = Destruction of Society

lul wat?

I have been noticing a lot of people using language that I would refer to as street or gutter language.

Also, text messaging accelerates this dilemma.

You people understand that this is the degeneration of your society, don't you?

Here is one of the most prominent sites for the "gutter" language [link to www.urbandictionary.com]

Any intelligent thoughts on this?

wtf?

Every former generation thinks that the current generation in causing the Destruction of Society.

Language changes with the culture.

No doom here... next?

Degeneration, or evolution?

I have been noticing a lot of people using language that I would refer to as street or gutter language.

Also, text messaging accelerates this dilemma.

You people understand that this is the degeneration of your society, don't you?

Here is one of the most prominent sites for the "gutter" language [link to www.urbandictionary.com]

Any intelligent thoughts on this?

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Good post, Jurist.

I typed a thesis for a graduate student some years back that focused on this point ... not "gutter language", per se, but language in general.

It seems that if a nation has occupied another nation (as in the case of certain middle eastern nations being taken under the wing of Great Britain), the first thing the occupiers do is force the occupied nation to give up their own language.

Studies have been made that prove when a culture is forced to give up it's language, that culture is destroyed.

Please don't ask me for links to any of this. I learned this about 35 years ago. (BC = "Before Computers", lol.)


And btw ... this is happening in the US today. Latinos, by not having to give up their language, retain their culture and thus do not become a part of the American culture.

The American Culture has been targeted for destruction for some years now.


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Come on people, they have taken the law from your knowledge and now you are letting them take your language away.

Good grief!

I have been noticing a lot of people using language that I would refer to as street or gutter language.

Also, text messaging accelerates this dilemma.

You people understand that this is the degeneration of your society, don't you?

Here is one of the most prominent sites for the "gutter" language [link to www.urbandictionary.com]

Any intelligent thoughts on this?

I believe the site that you linked to [urbandicionary] actually provides an evolution in communication in its own way. It's Ebonix that you have to worry about.

Only that you should keep in mind that English was once a gutter language, spoken only by uneducated peasants.

No need for a link on this. You've made a compelling point on your own.

You have to ask if precision of expression or articulate speech is something to be valued.

Then you have to ask if some of the urban dialects allow precision expression or articulate speech.

My position is that most people can't talk.
I see kids interviewed on TV. It's rare and very refeshing when you see a 7 year old who speaks clearly.
The closer you are to grunting, the lower you are.
Hows that for a rule?

Only that you should keep in mind that English was once a gutter language, spoken only by uneducated peasants.

Only that you should keep in mind that English was once a gutter language, spoken only by uneducated peasants.

Interesting.

Understanding the English language can be a tad bit confusing at times, what was the language of the elite?

Latin is still used in law. There is a reason for this, you know.

Interesting.

Understanding the English language can be a tad bit confusing at times, what was the language of the elite?

Latin is still used in law. There is a reason for this, you know.

Only that you should keep in mind that English was once a gutter language, spoken only by uneducated peasants.

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Where in the world did you come up with this idea???