The relationship between our spoken language and the language we use when we text is that they have enormously influenced each other changing meanings in both ways. Over the years the more frequently we text the more our spoken language has changed. And the same the other way. We change the way we talk when we speak to adults and our friends or the younger generation. There are many more ways that text and speech have developed and in this essay we look at the different ways this happened.

Ways texting has somewhat influenced the way we speak. For example the initialism LOL was originally introduced in text to show when we found something funny. But as the LOL kept on getting used the meaning changed several times to a point where it became almost sarcastic. This is when it also got transferred to speech. People would then use in conversations when someone would tell a joke or say which they did not find funny they would say LOL instead of laughing or maybe even in a rude way to basically say it is not funny. There have been many more initialisms and acronyms frequently used in conversations among people. These types of speaking did not exist before they were used for texting.They were only introduced afterwards to speed up what some people are saying or like the case of LOL  sarcastic at times.

Paralinguistic features are very important in conversations that happen day to day. We can express emotions through our facial expressions, body expressions and pitch or tone of voice. These can help us express if we are angry, happy etc. Talking loudly can show that you are excited or angry along with what we are saying. We can not show these in text so we use emoticons to show these. These are emojis like the smiley face that are able to express any type of emotion. Another example of a paralinguistic is when speaker 1 said “The sky” in reply to speaker 2 saying “What you up to”. If it was left like this it would look serious or strange. But i added a smiley face emoji. This is a form of emoticon which gives the sense that I’m being sarcastic or I am not being serious about it being funny. Emoticons can really help us display facial expressions so people have more of an understanding to how we feel about situations. As sometimes it may be difficult to display in text emoticons support emotion instead of just saying what you meant. But they can also be interpreted very differently sarcastic or serious.

Accent may affect the way we speak in turn affecting the way some of us may text. When people come from other countries they will vary the way they speak and text. For example New Zealanders have a very distinct accent where sometimes they replace there vowels. This will show up in text. Some New Zealanders will say “mulk” and will transfer this to text as it sounds like the way it is said. It is almost like a joke on them selves. Although the same if we were to go to New Zealand we would sound posh. This shows that accent is a pretty big factor in speech. Another example maybe “fing”. People say this when they are talking with others as it is part of their accent and so they spell it like this when they text. As the years go on different accents become more frequent as more people travel. Everyone speaks with an accent. You may have an English accent but to other regions this is a strange way of talking.

Abbreviation is very common now in the way people text to each other. There are many different abbreviations for the same word and thousands of abbreviations in total. These change depending on who is saying them. These are usually used to make conversations flow and make it easier to text. As it has become easier to text it is necessary to say things faster in reply to other people. Abbreviations are usually when you shorten words or phrases down to speed up text. An example of brevity would be “wuu2”. This an abbreviation of what you up to. This is much faster to type so people would prefer to use this then have to write out 4 full words. Another example would be “cba”. We use this to get our points across as fast and as efficiently as we can. We are not trying to show of any of our English skills.

The way we speak may affect the way we text as we adapt our accent etc in our text. Another example apart from accent may be the way we shorten sentences. Students may say “Going to the docks” when in reality they mean they are actually going sailing. This has just adapted from people shortening sentences and can now be found in text as well as speech. It can also identify who you may be talking to. You would not tend to speak in slang to a teacher or someone that may have more authority then you do. Another example of speech influencing text could be the use of onomatopoeia. In speech we would use onomatopoeia  to compensate for not being able to make certain sounds. Such as “boom” instead of an explosion. This has gone           In to text as we have conversations.

The way people speak shows us a lot about someone such as their age, background and social status. For example the younger generations may speak a form of slang which is not used with the older generations.  “That’s dead” is usually used as a way of saying something is boring or bad. This is usually not said by older people. Speech can also help identify people’s social status. “Bullet head” is a term used to describe someone’s head shape and would only usually used between a group of friends as the personally know each other and only mean it in a joking way. It can also show if someone has a higher status. Most of the time when you speak to someone or you have the higher status you will speak more formally to show this.  People from other countries may also have different ways of speech as this what they may have adapted from their origin country. These can also be seen in text as often the way someone speaks is translated into text without them even taking notice as that is normal for them.

Ways texting has somewhat influenced the way we speak. For example the initialism LOL was originally introduced in text to show when we found something funny. But as the LOL kept on getting used the meaning changed several times to a point where it became almost sarcastic. This is when it also got transferred to speech. People would then use in conversations when someone would tell a joke or say which they did not find funny they would say LOL instead of laughing or maybe even in a rude way to basically say it is not funny. There have been many more initialisms and acronyms frequently used in conversations among people. These types of speaking did not exist before they were used for texting.They were only introduced afterwards to speed up what some people are saying or like the case of LOL sarcastic at times.

in conclusion we can see that text and speech are enormously similar when looked at closely. This relationship can be seen easier than writing as we directly translate what we say to how we text. We can more easily put emotion into text then we can put into writing with the use of a range of emoticons. There are also some differences as we would not usually use acronyms in speech. This is only used in text to speed up conversations. Text has inspired words into our speech which other wise would not have existed. The relationship between speech and text is much closer then people would think and there is a number of different points that prove it.