The word
of the year
What do we use words for? We use them to express
our feelings, to be able to communicate necessary information to others, to ask
what we need to know… Words make our life better and easier. What does it
really means that the most used word is an emoji? Does that emoji express more
or less than words?
In my opinion, the fact of that the most used
word is not a word is clearly a sign of how our culture is. We are becoming the
culture of the image, the impact, the visual, the immediacy. Our lives are
becoming a spiral of trivial issues that are not interesting or expressive at
all. We can be texting for hours but we don't really write anything at all. If
we look at a Whatsapp or Telegram conversation we can easily find that we write
short number of words that are repeated constantly. That is something that
doesn't really help us on how to write when we're at school and that removes us
time that we could be using for creating a novel. We lose the knowledge of
synonyms and long or hard expressions and we replace them for an image that
could say something similar much faster.
The use of images can be very enriching because
it can improve the comprehension of our message but in abuse it results in an
empty content. Emojis were created to avoid confusion on our mood or in how we
should pronounce the messages we read, although they're becoming the whole
message.
In
conclusion, I found that the fact of that the word of the year is an emoji
should make us analyze what we say and which is the way we use to say it. And
last but not least… why does Oxford know the words we use? It's a little
alarming that we're so controlled!
CLARA URQUIZA
2 BATX A
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