lmao did u here their is a new song by JJ Howard--Language is Devolving

Language is devolving and has been ever since television/internet started to evolve. The perfect harmony that language and typography had balanced was tipped heavily once the "Age of Show Business" began. Language is no longer the only way that people express themselves, communicate, and make use of time. People resort to phrases pre-made by television and the Internet. The content of any conversation is made up of said phrases and about what was on television or the Internet. Language no longer has a mind of its own, taking its own path to shape ideas for the ideas are already shaped. Almost all sentences put into a book or magazine in the last decade follows a predictable and familiar structure and pattern. Back in 1946 in ”Politics and the English Language” Orwell writes of how language had become so mundane that the context did not feel real, “When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases —bestial, atrocities, iron heel, bloodstained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder — one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy,” (Orwell 8). Even sixty years ago, language was devolving to be merely words spoken with no meaning to be heard by a reader or audience. The “dummy” that Orwell mentions easily fits in today’s world as the television for it transforms all news and language from real events and sentences with meaning, to the reflection of words as amusement. As people watch the television and hears all of the important things said, since it is relayed through the television, the meaning is lost and the only thing the viewer gains from watching is entertainment.

Language is losing its value and fast for being able to express an idea clearly is no longer necessary for it has already been done. In fact, any unfamiliar texts, typically what are considered “classic” can easily be translated into lame turns at the click of a button. There is no need, no use, and no value in the ability to understand high-level language. Language is not only devolving to using the word “like” to complete any thought, it is in fact disappearing from daily use. Words may be expressed at any moment, but real language is not. Language is defined as “the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way”(Dictionary.com). It no longer is the method of human communication, for a text message saying “lmao did u here their is a new song by JJ Howard” is not structured nor conventional. In fact there is no meaning in that “sentence” at all, it only points out something that is already on the Internet, so no new information is being expressed. Language is devolving, as fast in the Internet is evolving but it can be salvaged with less use of incoherent text messages and more time spent reading and comprehending classic literature.

Works Cited 
Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, n.d. Web. 26 Aug. 2015.
Orwell, George. "Politics and the English Language." : Politics and the English Language. N.p., n.d. Web.26 Aug. 2015.