Joh John Humphry's Essay
In this assessment I will be discovering two contradicting attitudes towards texting. I will be investigating John Humphry’s article, “I h8 txt msgs: how texting is wrecking our language” together with David Crystal’s analysis of text messages looking at whether the English language in changing for the good or bad. Also I will compare the good points and bad points of both sides of the argument.
John Humphreys-
John Humphry’s is represented as though he is a well-educated individual who is deeply concerned for the English language. He expresses his ‘life time love affair with the language’ as though he is obsessed by dictionaries and standard English language. The article ‘I h8 msgs’ shows his heart ache. ‘I feel a small shudder as I write these words it has fallen victim to fashion’. He says it’s the removal of ‘the hyphen of no fewer than 16,000 words that has “betrayed” his very “precious”. Humphry’s uses sarcasm sometimes to illustrate his frustration that the matter is often taken lightly. He says ‘no time to make one tiny key-stroke as though indirectly to suggest that he must change the spelling now only because of society’s “removal” of his much loved hyphens and the purpose they once held. …show more content…
His use of alliteration to describe the violation of these English language characteristics illustrates further his disgust towards the matter. He mentions that ‘The SMS vandals are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours eight hundred years ago’ – the analogy used shows his contempt seeing that what Genghis khan did was torture a numerous amount of innocent people. Humphry’s elevates the importance of this “wrecking of our language” to the extent that he compares it to the butchering of innocent
John Humphreys-
John Humphry’s is represented as though he is a well-educated individual who is deeply concerned for the English language. He expresses his ‘life time love affair with the language’ as though he is obsessed by dictionaries and standard English language. The article ‘I h8 msgs’ shows his heart ache. ‘I feel a small shudder as I write these words it has fallen victim to fashion’. He says it’s the removal of ‘the hyphen of no fewer than 16,000 words that has “betrayed” his very “precious”. Humphry’s uses sarcasm sometimes to illustrate his frustration that the matter is often taken lightly. He says ‘no time to make one tiny key-stroke as though indirectly to suggest that he must change the spelling now only because of society’s “removal” of his much loved hyphens and the purpose they once held. …show more content…
His use of alliteration to describe the violation of these English language characteristics illustrates further his disgust towards the matter. He mentions that ‘The SMS vandals are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours eight hundred years ago’ – the analogy used shows his contempt seeing that what Genghis khan did was torture a numerous amount of innocent people. Humphry’s elevates the importance of this “wrecking of our language” to the extent that he compares it to the butchering of innocent