Comments on: Computas, society ‘n natur, dogg

By: Liam

Liam — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:02:19 +0000

Well, our language is always evolving, I’d be more worried about the internet not allowing our language to evolve, with everyone reading and listening to the same dialect, we might lose some of the linguistic diversity. Of course, leetspeak might be evidence that people will continue to develop dialects even across geographic boundries.

It’s fun to imagine people learning english rules with leetspeak and wordizzles mixed in.

Of course, I have to mention the Google bork language settings, they’re still my favorite (you can get to them if you click on the preferences link from the Google main page and choose Bork, bork, bork)

By: Hannah

Hannah — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:53:09 +0000

:0 offensive (and funny). I guess if you knew the programming language PHP you can make
up your own language too?! Has anyone in our class tried it? There are issues surrounding
ICT and the degradation of our language…what will be the effects on our society over time?

By: sieber

sieber — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:15:15 +0000

Oh, that slays. I translated http://www.whitehouse.gov and this is what it gave me for the Saturday radio address on Social Security:

In his weekly radio address, President Bush said, “The American thugz did not place us in office ta pass on problems ta future generizzles n future Presidents n future Congresses. I wizzay wizzle wit B-to-tha-izzoth parties ta fix Social Security permanently fo shizzle. Social Security has been there fo` generizzles of Americans, n drug deala we will strengthen it fo` generizzles ta come.”