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Generations speaking different languages

TheCatWoman

I don't understand most text speak and emoji's are a totally different language to me, I'm wondering if in a few years time the older and younger generations will be speaking such different languages that they won't actually be able to communicate at all?

I find text speak in email, posts and every day conversations maddening as I have to spend so long working out what people are actually trying to say, as someone who's dyslexic it's really difficult and having spent so long learning to overcome my dyslexia  it feels like a slap in the face that people are so lazy with their language.

How do others feel, it's probably only me who feels like this, but it sort of feels like a double discrimination as some of the worst people for doing it are other ND's

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  • The only times I tend to use this Gen Z talk is when I say lol (laugh out loud), tbh (to be honest) and irl (in real life). When it comes to emojis I tend to write what I’m writing and then use emojis afterwards. Only time I use emojis only is when I’m in distress and I send my mum crying emjois, or if I haven’t got time to respond I’ll send a quick thank you emoji 

    I don’t know what half the Gen Z’s talk about though so I feel so embarrassed and ashamed to be in their age group (especially the older ones)! Even I don’t understand what the F they go on about and don’t get me started on tiktok. How is watching someone blinking meant to be fun or entertaining?! I get bullied by Gen Z’s for not being like them and then I get bullied by other generations for being an F ing Gen Z! I can’t win! Sorry for my rant! 

  • in reply to Elfilis

    No, it's OK you rant away.

    I'm still a little fuzzy on what all these Gens are, I think gen z is the under 30's? I've never been on tiktok, but I can't imagine wanting to watch others blink, unless I was wondering if they were a psychopath or not? Psychopaths have a low blink rate apparently? 

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    I'm a very late boomer, born 1962, by the time I was old enough to take advantage of all the things that supposedly came with being a boomer, there was nothing left, but the anger of the next genration down.

    Do you think we speak different languages though, theres so much text speak that I don't understand. the 8 years I spent with no mobile signal was at the start of the smart phone revolution, I totally missed out and although they're all suppose to be intuitive, I think they only are if you've had every generation of phone and as theres no instructions there seems no way of getting to understand one. I did try smart phones for dummies, but it wasn't very helpful as it assumed I'd want all the social media platforms and I don't. It was written for an American audience too which didn't help as I had to translate things in my head that I was having trouble understanding. Even simple things like flashlight instead of torch are difficult when trying to learn something you really don't understand. And now with the take over of things like emojis I'm totally lost and that's even if I can actually see the things clearly enough to make out what they are. It gets so complicated it just puts me off communicating at all and I can see a time in the not to distant future where I dont' talk to people at all, because we literally don't speak the same language

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    I'm a very late boomer, born 1962, by the time I was old enough to take advantage of all the things that supposedly came with being a boomer, there was nothing left, but the anger of the next genration down.

    Do you think we speak different languages though, theres so much text speak that I don't understand. the 8 years I spent with no mobile signal was at the start of the smart phone revolution, I totally missed out and although they're all suppose to be intuitive, I think they only are if you've had every generation of phone and as theres no instructions there seems no way of getting to understand one. I did try smart phones for dummies, but it wasn't very helpful as it assumed I'd want all the social media platforms and I don't. It was written for an American audience too which didn't help as I had to translate things in my head that I was having trouble understanding. Even simple things like flashlight instead of torch are difficult when trying to learn something you really don't understand. And now with the take over of things like emojis I'm totally lost and that's even if I can actually see the things clearly enough to make out what they are. It gets so complicated it just puts me off communicating at all and I can see a time in the not to distant future where I dont' talk to people at all, because we literally don't speak the same language

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