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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 08:51 pm (UTC)Nationality/ the country of residence which most affected your speech: USA
Age: 52
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?
Yes, somewhat. Language is "slangier" and less traditionally grammatical, and some of the slang is completely new. Oh, and cursing is a LOT more commonly accepted.
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?
Significant, but not enormous. I use a fair amount of computer metaphors: fatal error, memory overload, hard reset, core dump. (FYI, if conventional grammar matters to you, that's "effect," not "affect" that you want there.)
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?
The internet makes my personal vocabulary larger, because I interact with a wider variety of people, in more specialty fields. I don't have children. I think the people I know also use more computer metaphors.
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?
These are always hard to think of on cue. Lots more acronyms: TMI comes immediately to mind. "Hosed"; "24-7" "dotcom"; "kewl" (though "cool" is much older); "no-brainer"; "Gen X"; "I'm down with that" is just coming into my vocabulary now. The newer "-ist" words: classist, ageist.
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 kind of like it that cursing is more acceptable, though I do wish a lot of people (including me) would reserve "fuck" as a compliment, rather than an insult. I like the richness of some computer metaphors and I almost always like Black slang and new teenage slang when it comes along.
6. What aspects of changes in slang, terminology, idioms, etc. frustrate you or do you dislike?
Since I don't watch much TV, I get lost when there's new TV slang that enters the language (it was years before I knew "yadada yadada" was from Seinfeld for example. I tend to like slang, and like watching language evolve. I don't care for the way advertising slogans get used as core language, but that's more than 15 years old.
7. What’s your favorite word, phrase, term or idiom introduced in the last 10-15 years?
No single favorite comes immediately to mind. I'll let you know.
8. Do you have a job in the computer/tech industry, and if so how might that affect your answers on this survey?
No, but lots of my friends do, and I'm sure that does affect the way I use language.
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Date: 2004-03-15 08:52 pm (UTC)