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timepiececlockHello, hello folks! I have Linguistics field project that I need you guys to help me with. You see, I was collecting data IRL, but I lost some of the documents and I need new data from people. Can you help me in my time of emergency? I need to get at least 18 people to fill this out, the more the better. Men are especially welcome since there's so few on my friends list. Er... that I know about, anyway. ;P
If you guys could answer these 8 survey questions, that would be great.
If you could then create a link in your journal to this entry to spread the word about my survey, that would be even better. But that's not part of the survey, so you don't have to and you could just answer the questions.
Thank you so so much.
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SURVEY
Gender:
Nationality/ the country of residence which most affected your speech:
Age:
If you are 29 years or younger, do not fill out any more questions. You may leave now with my thanks.
If you are 30 years or older, please answer the following opinion questions to the best of your ability, and feel free to elaborate as much as you like:
1. Do you think language and vocabulary in common daily use has changed since 1990?
2. Do you think widespread computer technology has had a significant effect on the vocabulary you use and understand in the last 10-15 years?
3. How would you say the vocabulary of you, your children, or the people you know has changed since 1990 with the popularization of the internet?
4. What are some new words, phrases, idioms, or other bits of figurative language you might use now that you did not use 10-15 years ago? Do these relate to technology or to other things in life?
5. What are some positive aspects of changes in slang, terminology, idioms, etc. that have occurred since or resulting from the 90s and beyond?
6. What aspects of changes in slang, terminology, idioms, etc. frustrate you or do you dislike?
7. What’s your favorite word, phrase, term or idiom introduced in the last 10-15 years?
8. Do you have a job in the computer/tech industry, and if so how might that affect your answers on this survey?
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Thank you for participating. NOTE: The age question is very important so please be honest about it... my project involves the perspective of people over 30 because that's an age wherein I judged that people would have lived long enough to accurately measure some changes in the language over longer periods of time. Of course, if you want to fill it out for fun, you're welcome to do so. Just make sure you tell me so on the age question. :)
EDIT: I've got enough now, thank you!
If you guys could answer these 8 survey questions, that would be great.
If you could then create a link in your journal to this entry to spread the word about my survey, that would be even better. But that's not part of the survey, so you don't have to and you could just answer the questions.
Thank you so so much.
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SURVEY
Gender:
Nationality/ the country of residence which most affected your speech:
Age:
If you are 29 years or younger, do not fill out any more questions. You may leave now with my thanks.
If you are 30 years or older, please answer the following opinion questions to the best of your ability, and feel free to elaborate as much as you like:
1. Do you think language and vocabulary in common daily use has changed since 1990?
2. Do you think widespread computer technology has had a significant effect on the vocabulary you use and understand in the last 10-15 years?
3. How would you say the vocabulary of you, your children, or the people you know has changed since 1990 with the popularization of the internet?
4. What are some new words, phrases, idioms, or other bits of figurative language you might use now that you did not use 10-15 years ago? Do these relate to technology or to other things in life?
5. What are some positive aspects of changes in slang, terminology, idioms, etc. that have occurred since or resulting from the 90s and beyond?
6. What aspects of changes in slang, terminology, idioms, etc. frustrate you or do you dislike?
7. What’s your favorite word, phrase, term or idiom introduced in the last 10-15 years?
8. Do you have a job in the computer/tech industry, and if so how might that affect your answers on this survey?
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Thank you for participating. NOTE: The age question is very important so please be honest about it... my project involves the perspective of people over 30 because that's an age wherein I judged that people would have lived long enough to accurately measure some changes in the language over longer periods of time. Of course, if you want to fill it out for fun, you're welcome to do so. Just make sure you tell me so on the age question. :)
EDIT: I've got enough now, thank you!
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Date: 2004-03-15 08:22 pm (UTC)Nationality/ the country of residence which most affected your speech: USA
Age: 33
1. Do you think language and vocabulary in common daily use has changed since 1990?
Of course. Language is always changing.
2. Do you think widespread computer technology has had a significant affect on the vocabulary you use and understand in the last 10-15 years?
Certainly. People now talk about their DSL lines, their cable TV, their TiVo's, their websites, HTML, URLs, email, disk space, downloading music, surfing the web, etc.
3. How would you say the vocabulary of you, your children, or the people you know has changed since 1990 with the popularization of the internet?
Since 1990, casual access to the Internet has become widespread. Before then, I don't remember people talking about websites or email very often. It was mostly confined to computer geeks. But pretty much everyone knows about email (and about computer viruses, and email attachments, and digital photos, etc.). So I guess I would say that a huge number of new words and concepts have entered the language.
4. What are some new words, phrases, idioms, or other bits of figurative language you might use now that you did not use 10-15 years ago? Do these relate to technology or to other things in life?
URL, website, email (I used email before 1990, but I was definitely among a small number of people I knew in that regard), computer virus, DSL, upload, download, HTML, disk space, surfing the web, going online, checking email, hotlinking, bandwidth (and bandwidth theft), high-speed connection, frames (on websites), etc. -- These mostly relate to some meetingplace between technology and regular life.
5. What are some positive aspects of changes in slang, terminology, idioms, etc. that have occurred since or resulting from the 90s and beyond?
I'm rather fond of the influences of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" on idiom, which have also spread beyond fans of the television show and have invaded speech on a wider scale.
6. What aspects of changes in slang, terminology, idioms, etc. frustrate you or do you dislike?
I'm not fond of the increasing useage of acronyms (DSL, USB, HTML, URL, etc.), because they make language more difficult for outsiders to interpret. I'm also not fond of the increasing useage of "netspeak" by the younger generation. It's difficult for me to even describe it to you, because it makes so little sense to me. It seems to be derived primarily from the ultra-abbreviated text messaging systems they use to communicate with each other on their pagers and such.
7. What’s your favorite word, phrase, term or idiom introduced in the last 10-15 years?
Hmmm. That's a difficult one. But I guess I would have to go with Homer Simpson's "Doh!" It's just so expressive of something no other single word really captures.
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Date: 2004-03-15 09:04 pm (UTC)I also am not fond of acronyms. There's precious few that I use regularly on LJ and even less IRL (<--- that being one of the few.)
"Doh!"
:grin: wonderful answer.
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Date: 2004-03-15 11:05 pm (UTC)8. Do you have a job in the computer/tech industry, and if so how might that affect your answers on this survey?
Nope, I don't have such a job, but my husband does. I hear him talk a lot about computers and online gaming and blah-di-blah, and so that may affect me slightly, but I think my own online practices (including fandom) have a much greater effect.
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Date: 2004-03-16 01:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-16 01:51 am (UTC)