TV Makes People Sound the Same

J.K. Chambers

The motivation of changing a word is quite unclear. As the changes occur in a subtle way, the cause might be fashion or fads, adolescent rebellion from childhood norms or motor economy in the physiology of pronunciation. The claim of this myth is actually about the dilution of regional speech by reason of the mass media. It is known that the media spreads slang, but most of the time, it ends up as a fad. However, there is no evidence regarding the media disseminating or influencing sound changes or grammatical innovations. For one thing, the regional dialect continues to diverge from standard dialect even though they are exposed to the media. Second, there is an abundant of proof regarding the mass media that cannot provide stimuli for language acquisition. Lastly, global language changes. These language changes are spreading at the same moment as the globalization of mass media. This should not be considered as cause and effect. The changes however occur from face to face, as we might borrow some features of others speech, while they might borrow some of ours.

According to the write, this myth is busted.

As stated above, the media gives us old words, gibberish, slang and what have you. Yet, most of the time, they are a fad, that is forgotten within a couple of years. What you might forget is that a lot of people wont follow trends, because they might come across as stupid, vulgar or just plain silly. However, different words might change because more and more people tend to use it. Nonetheless, this is passed on face to face. The result is that it will live longer. There is no thing as the same, as the words will change overtime. They will have another meaning in a different country. Different is okay, it brings dynamic in the dialects, accent and languages.