Blog april 20

Our Language is Neologisms

How our language will continue to expand cause of technology

                                                             

Language, like life is not static, languages all over the world have evolved in order to accommodate for new things which need naming. Humans had to come up with new words every time they discovered something new, this is what got us the languages we use today. Human creativity has made us the civilization we are today, the same civilization which has gone to the moon. Language is just another part of our resourcefulness.

The arrival of the personal computer opened us to a whole new world of words, words we need and have created to describe new technology. We got words like CPU(Central Processing Unit), RAM (Random Access Memory), Internet (International Network), FTP (File Transfer Protocol), and many others. The constant development of these new words is essential to our language.

We will continue to see new words for a long time to come, just go online to a forum, ‘chatroom’, or even a videogame with multiple players; new words are being invented as we ‘speak’. I’ve found ROFL (Rolling On Floor Laughing), JK (Just Kidding), WTF (What The F**K), and many others all new due to the internet and new media in general.

New words have up to now and will continue to be necessary for new technology especially since technology is constantly being perfected. In today’s world technology becomes obsolete the day after you buy it. What is a cheap laptop today, could have been a super-room sized computer ten or fifteen years ago. With the use of evermore efficient technology we don’t know what tomorrow will bring.

Our ability to come up with new words to describe new things is and will be beneficial, our flexibility to accept them and use them, essential.