John Humhry I H8 Humch Speech Analysis

Linguists and language advocates have always had a standpoint against anything that threatens the existence of language; in particular, English.Take for an example, John Humphry, a journalist for the Daily Mail UK and a very passionate advocate for the syntax and structure of the English language. In his very expressive journalistic piece “ I H8 TEXT SPEAK” Humphry voices out his concern over the loss of the ’hyphen’ And its effect on change of over 16000 words. He argues that this loss is caused by testers and their “onward march” to modifying the English language. Although Humphry raises a competent argument, there are inconsistencies and fallacies that must be addressed. Over all his tone emanates vexation against texters and the change in the English language, and although he briefly acknowledges the opposing ideas, it is not sufficient enough to form a fair and justified argument. …show more content…
The fact that our language is changing rapidly and texters do make a large impact on this change. However he has described this to be a negative impact to the English language and has solely blamed texters throughout the text. Certainly, the statement “It's because of the reason for this change. It has happened because we are changing the way we communicate with each other”. logically supports the claim that texting does revolutionise our communication, and imparts a large impact to the English dictionary, and this is a fair fact he has parted as it is well obvious in today's