letter to the editor

response to the editor 

Throughout the recent years and decade it was well known that technology had a severe impact on our language, an example of that would be text-language. text- speak had a huge impact on how language is being portrayed as text-speak is being used by both adults and youth, looking at statistics it mainly shown that adults are the main people who use the language of text-speak.although it could be argued that it isn’t a new way of language it only a new form of communication. 

Taking a look at the article “Twtr? its majorly bad!” it could be recognised that there has been a certain impact on the use of language. The language used in school work, school projects, interviews, media (news), memoirs and other types of communication could be disturbed and affected due to the language usage in the social media (twitter) there has been some slang found alongside with deleting some letter in words might affect the layout of your work. Throughout the use of abbreviation and some slang in theses types of social media (ex:- twitter) it could lead to affect people’s usage of words on a daily basis for example “omg!,lol and words like u instead of you and ur instead of you’re), this might lead to disturb a person’s way of interpreting and using language in inappropriate situations. It could be stated that using such a dialect might impact and affect it. Although if we think about it to actually remove the excess letters to make it easier to type in. You actually need to know the excess letters you are removing. Taking a look at what the the headmistress seems to be doubting is that she wont be able to accept is that despite this affect the usage of standard english had become stronger and stronger due to this concept. This didn't happen recently it could be argued that over certain time periods there had been a change in language and thus leading to change the concept of standard english. It is noticed that from the past there had been a change in the of standardised english thus making them interpret this as a variation of english.In my opinion I believe that this type of language text-speak should be considered as its own type of language descending from language, since it represents and interprets a way of communication, so in my opinion once again I strongly believe that text speak is a certain type of language. 

Fictional interview

Interviewer: Hello ladies and gentle men welcome back to our lovely show, today we have one of the most talented artist in the middle east, he’s well known for winning the title of Arab’s got talent and winning the MTV Europe Music Award for Best Middle East Act. please welcome Mohammad Assaf.

Mohammad Assaf: Thanks for hosting me, I'm glad to be here with you. 

interviewer: Well lets get right to it. you are one of the most talented Arab musicians in your era, you're well known for performing the works of classic Arab artists such as Mohammad Abdel Wahab. Can you tell us about some of the artists or bands that had influenced you within you're community?

Mohammad Assaf: sure why not, first of all there was a band named “al ashiqeen” which was a band that was found during the start of the Palestinian revolution back in 1965. They used to play on a station that was called “sur falesiteen”(wall of Palestine). As a child I used to listen to them a lot especially when i was in school, they were one of the most authentic Palestinian bands that had influenced me to be an artist alongside an influence regarding the type of songs that I play now a days. however there many other bands and artists that had influenced me like a band named “al buraq” and many others.

Interviewer: moving on, knowing that you're a Palestinian and that there is a war going on why do you Palestinians get into the music industry despite the Israeli blockade on Gaza and the harsh economic situations, why do you get into  music?

Mohammad Assaf: Well this shows that my community and I in the rest of the time we have in this life we still believe and hope that their well be a day when we get our country back, but we do enjoy music because despite this occupation we still have the right to be happy. We do sing songs of celebration, I mean that our lives aren't bitter and all but due to our circumstances and this occupation we are  forced to do things. however were a part of humanity we have the right to live happy and express our selves don't we?… talking about me now, since I was a kid I had dreamt of being a well known artist. My dream was to sing patriotic songs regarding my homeland despite the conditions we live in, it was hard for me to reach to the point of being famous and all I really struggled due to the blockade and the occupation. civilians lives in my community had changed and we needed to express this and i had done that throughout my music. Despite everything were still under occupation and many of our youth talent is hidden and I was an example of one. So Palestinians tend to get into music to express the emotions and sorrow towards their lives. 

Interviewer: Thanks Mohammad that was an insightful answer that you gave us, looking at content and theme of you’re work, many have said that the use of language in you're songs had gotten them to enjoy you're art because of the way you use language to express you’re thoughts. do you believe that you had made a change in your community?

Mohammad Assaf: Well taking a look at the amount of people those in which who have listened to my work, I certainly believe that I had made a huge change in my Palestinian community since my songs were mainly patriotic thus I was sharing with them their experiences under the occupation alongside with how much we all love Palestine. However I don't believe that I had only affected my community only I believe that I had touched and inspired others as well. taking that back to songs i have sang like "ali al koofeyeh" the language used in their is pretty sensitive and emotional as my aim was to touch Palestinians heart and give them an insight towards my thoughts and feelings about my homeland. I believe that this patriotic song had touched and influenced myself and many other communities in the world thus making a change in them by the use of language and content of my work.

Interviewer: thank you mohammed for being here with us, I hope that we get a chance and see you next time but until then I hope you have a great life.