Big Words are Being Abolished

Abolishing Large Words

Ramin, Martin.“Big Words Are Fading, But Many People Still Love Them.” The Wall Street Journal. n.p, 24 March 2014. Web. 17 April 2014. <http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304179704579459232432887244?mod=djem10point>

           This article is about people beginning to use words that are a lot shorter than they should be using. They are spending so much time on the internet and its just easier to shorten the word, use smaller synonyms, or an acronym. These make these people has a vocabulary of that of an elementary student. People are also being judge upon their use of a large vocabulary.

           I think that this is just wrong. I know I may just use a slang for some long word or trending topic, but it's in the ironic way. Im not trying to make myself seem like a complete and utter simpleton when I write or speak. That's a little of what's wrong now, people think that's it's easier to just type things like, "It was really big!" rather then things that give more of a definition like "It was absolutely enormous in size." or something of the likes. They both mean the same thing, but people would rather use small words that are easy to say or type.    

           I believe that this topic is relevant in my English class because it's one of the bases of the entire subject. We do vocabulary every week and it is getting a little more challenging as the time goes by, Im sure we can all tell that. It's important though to learn things like this because it helps us better understand the past and the future of wringing and speaking. 

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