changing dialect:
An individuals dialect is the language used by them and the people they spend time with the most. Dialect is a very important part of language as it separates us from each other and makes us individual. Dialects separates counties from countries, cities from towns, villages from streets and house from friendship groups. where ever you are in the world you will experience a different variety of dialect. if you were just to go a mile or two away from your house the dialect within schools and friendship groups will change every so slightly, an because of this we can distinguish different places from one another.
Dialect is a vastly changing thing that people don't appreciate. If everyone starts talking like each other then our individuality will be taken away from us. We will all sound the same. Is that what you really want to happen? Everyone to sound like each other? No individuality? What happened to accents and individual phrases and words that were used by only certain places in the country which make them unique? phrases such as 'lush' used to be seen as a Bristolian thing as well as 'slider' Bristolians were the only region of the country to call a slide a slider which is actually lengthening the word but adding an 'er' to it to make it sound like the Bristolian 'farmers'. But now, children up and down the country call a slide a slider, stealing our uniqueness and identity, stolen from us from foreign towns around the country.
The main reason for this is internet sites such as youtube, facebook and twitter. I believe that these sites are the reason for our stolen identity. Even accents through music is now taken away. its very hard now days to tell where a person is from when they sing as they all try to sound the same. voices, accents, dialects and idiolects are plastered over facebook and twitter as well as youtube where younger generations have the ability to acknowledge these differences and slowly begin to merge them into one.
All we have left is the identity of 'farmers' previous dialects stolen from us after being copied from networking sites and used in other ways. 'lol' which used to mean 'lots of love' now means 'laugh out loud' as well as stealing our identity they are also changing the meaning of it. before you know it we wont be able to separate towns from cities, counties from countries, villages from streets nor homes from friendships and with a blink of a eye, the world will go from a unique and individual country to a place where everyone sounds the same.
