THE
WORD OF THE YEAR
It’s
a truth universally acknowledged,
that technology goes on every day. Actually, it’s surrounding us right now:
computers, cell phones or cameras. All this kind of media communication is
becoming more popular, and it’s not strange or even surprising that Oxford
dictionary said that the word of the year is an emoji.
The Oxford dictionary says that word means: A single distinct meaningful
element of speech or writing. If
we consider this definition, we reached the conclusion that any kind of symbol understandable
can be a word.
To get to the point, years ago, people used to write in their own hand
writing and the lucky ones with a writing machine, so there wasn’t any emoji or
symbol different as the ones that already people known. So what has happened to
start using new symbols such as emojis? As I said before, the world is going
on, and it’s okay indeed. The arrival of new technology helps us to carry out
very important scientific advances. It’s not only becoming more
technology-advanced, but it’s also developing other fields such as parlance,
oratory or even poetry, there’re many poets that talk about “technopoetry”.
They include emojis in their verses, performing a new way to read poetry.
Notwithstanding, there’re many linguists that believe that updating language
that way, with symbols such as emojis, makes it worse. As far as I’m concerned,
I don’t agree with this, because to survive, we must be able to adapt, and
happens the same with language, if anyone didn’t update it, it would disappear
over time. The only way to keep it alive
is creating new words and updating it at the new era.
I believe the Oxford dictionary has made such a good job considering an
emoji the word of the year. It must be the institutions that regulate the language
the ones that accept this change, besides being the first ones to update themselves.
David Almécija
2n BATX B
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