Blog 3-"Instant Messaging and the Future of Language"

   New media alters the way we communicate by allowing us to to use abbreviations and hashtags. Apps like Twitter allow people to create messages in 120 characters. New media like cell phones has made memorizing phone numbers a thing of the past. I only have my parents cell numbers and home number memorized because when I was in elementary school I would have to call my parents on the home phone attached to the wall. 

   We no longer use words like "thou and thine" simply because we have evolved. Our words have changed greatly with the advancement technology. We don't use that higher English any more and the only time we see it usually when we are reading some sort of story written in the 19th or 18th century. Today, if someone were to use "higher English" it would sound odd.