Father time is a cruel man.
Posted on 10/27/2011 9:24:22 PM PDT by traumer
Speaking at the BFI London Film Festival awards in Old Street, London, the actor said that modern language "is being eroded" and blamed "a world of truncated sentences, soundbites and Twitter."
"Our expressiveness and our ease with some words is being diluted so that the sentence with more than one clause is a problem for us, and the word of more than two syllables is a problem for us," he said. Fiennes, full name Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, said that students at drama schools were especially suffering thanks to social networking sites.
"I hear it, too, from people at drama schools, who say the younger intake find the density of a Shakespeare text a challenge in a way that, perhaps, (students) a few generations ago maybe wouldn't have."
The actor's directorial debut, Shakespeare's Coriolanus, premiered at the London Film Festival this week. Fiennes questioned whether the playwright was even relevant in a time of dumbed-down English language.
He said: "I think we're living in a time when our ears are attuned to a flattened and truncated sense of our English langyuage, so this always begs the question, is Shakespeare relevant? But I love this language we have and what it can do, and aside from that I think the themese in his plays are always relevant."
Fiennes, who does not use Twitter, is not alone in his theory. JP Davidson, the author of Planet Word and a linguistic expert, talked this week about longer words dying out in favour of shortened text message-style terms. He said: “You only have to look on Twitter to see evidence of the fact that a lot of English words that are used say in Shakespeare’s plays or PG Wodehouse novels — both of them avid inventors of new words
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LOL !
2 B, or nt 2 B...That is te ?
He’s right.
WTF HE t b
Definitely not classy.
Bastard took everything from MY BOOK "BIGHEADFRED'S INCOMPREHENSIBLE AND INCOHERENT RANTOGRAPHY" without the sleetest thinketh of recomprehensation for my A B C thru F Forts. Bastognes of Alphatripendicular to Oh Megan's pumpkin breed me just because it is the eve of I can prove to you just how dead I am by skipping the rest of the hollowdays in reese's treat of human sacrifice and cannibalism.
Father time is a cruel man.
I blame Strange Days for eroding my interest in Ralph Fiennes movies.
Our language is being obliterated. And with it go our founding documents, our liberty and our way of life.
Not only do we not use flowery and elegant language anymore, but most people these days can barely write a coherent sentence.
Don't even get me started on punctuation or misspelled words.
Examples:
Then and Than
Too To Two
Your You're Ur
There Their They're
Last but not least: putting apostrophes at the end of every word that ends with the letter "S"
I blame Flash Forward ... oh wait that was Joseph Fiennes ... ah bugger the both of them!
Depends on whether he did the deed in First Class or not.
You forgot “noone.”
Sir, put the bong down and take two steps back, please
“Your You’re Ur”
Ur. Isn’t that Chaldean?
Texting is the end of the English language. ftw
(for the win).
That's “noöne.”
So glad I don’t tweet; tweeting is for birds, not people.
your right people dont write good any more
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