How To Communicate In Spoken Language

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Language is used to express one's self, writing having been the most dominate for hundreds and thousands of years. However with the rise in technology and as this technology becomes more available we are seeing a shift in the way we communicate. From a very young age we begin to learn and tinker to find ways to communicate. When I was 5 I remember my mother having to help me excess a web game, I had no knowledge of the internet or even how to run it. The first time I managed to "surf"the web on my own i felt so proud of myself, better yet I managed to figure out how to use the printer to document my victory over the technology of the day. Proudly I presented my master piece to my parents only to find them upset at the waste of ink, turns out it cost money. When my youngest brother was 5 he'd prop himself up on the chair turn on the computer and sign himself into his own YouTube account and which video's. …show more content…
Even now as I'm writing this paper I make use of the online thesaurus and spellcheck to better my writing ability, but I then remember the words I discover and am able to use them in spoken language. Some ideas and views can't even be translated through written Language, as we have been all semester I use new media such as Photoshop to display thoughts I would not of been able to through written or spoken language. Again as I use and tinker with New Media my Language grows and becomes more elaborate, from still images to short moving GIFs more of me is able to be shared and in turn built upon by others. Still yet I find some ideas and feelings impossible to translate, but the beauty of this world is the language is forever evolving and allowing us to communicating more perfectly. ; we need only to wait for the next language and as we gain new languages we in-turn may use them as a tool to better older

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