Language has been around for many a millennia, but written language has been in use for only the past 3,000 years or so. Written English has been in use for even less than that, but there are many underlying aspects of the language which are overlooked and underappreciated that should be observed more meticulously. Whether it is the medium through which we receive text, Innuendo, underlying connotative meanings, proverbial meanings, or even meaningless words. In today’s day and age, phones and computers have overtaken the way we communicate. There are technologies like e-books that have led to the decrease of library traffic marginally, but programs like OverDrive were resorted to in order for libraries to keep up with the growing demand for them. The question that arises within these gadgets is distraction from these mediums of connection. Distraction not in the traditional sense of the word, but the distraction that changed us to not read word for word and “skim” over large texts to just get a general idea of what we’re looking at.
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For example, articles like “Einstein 's Theory of Relativity” would have been read and maybe re-read in a time thoroughly before the time of computers for full comprehension.As Nicholas Carr would describe it, now our eyes have adapted to “skim” through not only the prolonged online readings that’s stainuous to our eyesight, but it now does so for every body text outside of the internet as well before moving on do do something else. In his “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Carr talks about he was once a ”scuba diver in an ocean of words”, but now he is a “jet skiing” across without hesitation .At the gain in ease of information, we have lost our path of concentration. This has impacted me because I have subconsciously felt that I’ve been reading less; However, I read articles all the time online. So what is happening? The reality I’ve woken up to was mind boggling because in our drunken haze of daily routine, we forget the changes that we make on a daily basis that become habits. Mediums of how information is distributed are ever changing, but how we perceive them also change and they can alter the way we think, we read, and how we react to what we read. In my case, information isn’t meaningful anymore and is lost within mere minutes. Carr would agree that this is the case for many modern students. If we want to grasp the full meaning of our language not only on paper but also for the purpose we use it for daily, communicating with others, we have to understand how connotations work into modern language. A word like “God” is subjective to the person but that isn’t connotation because most people see “God” as the “good” and, another example, satan as “bad.” A more universal example of a or unsubjective connotation would be like “pig” and is also an example that Hiyakawa uses in his “The Double Task of language”.(44) This is a three letter word, but It has a very vivid image of repulsive traits associated with it to many people . It’s not the word that leads to such beliefs, but the usage derived from the word; People think of pigs as dirty, evil, and smelly creatures to which you are essentially associating them or whatever topic you have to pigs. In the end you have caused offense by stating a name given to an animal and that displays the power of connotative meaning. I am a muslim and continuing the connotations of “pig,” I realized that In reality, Islam does not forbid the eating of pork or even touching the animal because “God” said not to; However, In those times of revelations of the quran there was no hygienic awareness. Things like germ theory and advances in medicine were backwards that lead to the shunning of the animal 's nature of being in filth. True, the animal is rather dirty in its actions, but again it is the germs on the animal and because it caused disease that people looked down upon it to point where it affects me today still. In some Islamic houses, including my own, even saying the word pig in
For example, articles like “Einstein 's Theory of Relativity” would have been read and maybe re-read in a time thoroughly before the time of computers for full comprehension.As Nicholas Carr would describe it, now our eyes have adapted to “skim” through not only the prolonged online readings that’s stainuous to our eyesight, but it now does so for every body text outside of the internet as well before moving on do do something else. In his “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Carr talks about he was once a ”scuba diver in an ocean of words”, but now he is a “jet skiing” across without hesitation .At the gain in ease of information, we have lost our path of concentration. This has impacted me because I have subconsciously felt that I’ve been reading less; However, I read articles all the time online. So what is happening? The reality I’ve woken up to was mind boggling because in our drunken haze of daily routine, we forget the changes that we make on a daily basis that become habits. Mediums of how information is distributed are ever changing, but how we perceive them also change and they can alter the way we think, we read, and how we react to what we read. In my case, information isn’t meaningful anymore and is lost within mere minutes. Carr would agree that this is the case for many modern students. If we want to grasp the full meaning of our language not only on paper but also for the purpose we use it for daily, communicating with others, we have to understand how connotations work into modern language. A word like “God” is subjective to the person but that isn’t connotation because most people see “God” as the “good” and, another example, satan as “bad.” A more universal example of a or unsubjective connotation would be like “pig” and is also an example that Hiyakawa uses in his “The Double Task of language”.(44) This is a three letter word, but It has a very vivid image of repulsive traits associated with it to many people . It’s not the word that leads to such beliefs, but the usage derived from the word; People think of pigs as dirty, evil, and smelly creatures to which you are essentially associating them or whatever topic you have to pigs. In the end you have caused offense by stating a name given to an animal and that displays the power of connotative meaning. I am a muslim and continuing the connotations of “pig,” I realized that In reality, Islam does not forbid the eating of pork or even touching the animal because “God” said not to; However, In those times of revelations of the quran there was no hygienic awareness. Things like germ theory and advances in medicine were backwards that lead to the shunning of the animal 's nature of being in filth. True, the animal is rather dirty in its actions, but again it is the germs on the animal and because it caused disease that people looked down upon it to point where it affects me today still. In some Islamic houses, including my own, even saying the word pig in