Very interesting trend. But the language hardly is getting more interesting, IMO. Just simple, colorless, lifeless phrases. Adjectives make the language live and emotional.

I've been following you for a couple of years and my ability to understand everyday English improved dramatically, you are a brilliant teacher!

So now I know that modernity is ruining also English and French not only my Italian ... that's bad news 🙄 Laura you're great at teaching, thanks! 👏👏👏

I’m from Québec and… same here! I think it’s "language laziness", simple as that. Botched schooling, texting… yep Emoji syndrome is a good assumption. Excellent channel by the way! Love your accents!😊

I should bloody well say we bloody do need those bloody adjectives. Bloody adjectives are bloody wonderful.. Bloody adverbs are bloody great too.

Ha ha, that's so true! I watched the video and I was like, 'Yeah, that's how my children speak all the time!'

I believe this comes from the rise of internet culture, social media and the over use of language memes. How do you convey emotion through text? Fasted way is to drop emotes 😂😮😢 and another is to use pre established phrases, “I’m dead”, “throwing shade”, or “spill the tea!”. Internet culture is starting to change how we approach everyday speech, instead of using long, complex, flowery sentences which takes a long time to convey we just skip to how it made us feel, “I was like 😢, she was like 😳 and when James found out he was like 😡, it was WILD!”. In the FOMO era we don’t have enough time or word length to write an essay so we try to get to the point 👍. (That’s my 2 cents)

They don't neglect adjectives. They don't know them.

Using sounds instead of proper words may be a trend among the young, but it does point to a severely diminished vocabulary. This applies as well to mainly young people who use the f… word as every other word in a sentence. It doesn’t make them sound cool. It makes them sound uneducated and ill-informed. English is a unique language in that it contains a vast vocabulary. There is essentially a word in English for everything. Now a lot of these words were initially imposed upon English such as French and Latin or were begged, borrowed, appropriated or stolen from numerous other languages. These words are all now quintessentially English words although their humble beginnings may beg to differ, such as words like moose, kayak, igloo, ranch or marzipan. English started off as a hard-nosed Northern Germanic dialect, but eventually evolved into the beautiful language we know today. A language which has evolved into a true Lingua Franca spoken by millions of people across the world as a first or second language. English is English in spite of different dialects, words or accents, and no one version is better than another version, just a bit different. Instead of reverting to sounds worthy of our pre-historic fore-bearers, young native English speakers should grab a dictionary and a thesaurus, and thoroughly study this precious gift of language that they were given at birth.

Another great video. Thank you Smashing English!

I love to learn real and casual English :-) Thanks a lot!!! Your work is great, and cool

When people begin not to use words but to make noises instead, the end of civilization begins.

This video is very interesting! I loved it! Greetings from Chile. Chile is the Latin American country with the most British ancestry. Reason why, Chile is the Latin American country with the highest per capita cosumption of tea. And also, it is the only country in Latin America where the cosumption of tea exceeds that of coffee. We Chileans love to drink tea at any time of the day. In the morning, in the afternoon at night… We usually drink approximately 4-5 cups f tea daily. And just like in the UK, here in Chile we also drink milk tea. Although, not all Chileans like. Some prefer tea without milk. It is said that it was a British sailor who gave a packet of tea to a neighbour in the city of Valparaíso. In the past, here in Chile people used to drink yerba mate. There are still some Chileans who consume it. The British instilled in our country the custom of drinking tea. Because they didn’t really like drinking yerba mate.

This is a trait clearly connected to (originally) west coast USA teenagers, circa California. Look up Emelia Clarke’s ‘Callie from the Valley’ impression. It’s in part poorly funded US federal education and in part 90’s Pacific coast-located movies*, which have in turn heavily influenced the UK generation you’re talking of. Also it’s nearly exclusively an urban trait- country people haven’t caught this trend, mainly because it sounds odd when talking to your family after school and there are fewer opportunities to hang out at the shops (as mall-hanging teens do in the states). It will pass, as did the trend in 80’s teenagers to raise the inflection in their voices to match the tones of Aussie soap operas popular at the time. That optimistic ‘twang’ has gone the way of the Dodo. This will to. (*Bookending that stream of movies we were to believe vampires and werewolves were native to the Pacific above say, a landlocked Eastern European country, like Romania. Everything happened in a state best known for blazing sunshine, with surfing waves crashing in the background and Adam Sandler lampooned it in the ‘Jonathan’ character in the Hotel Transylvania cartoons).

Thank you Laura for this really interesting video. Analysing the trends in a language is.not something everyone talks about.

I love so much this video, it opened my mind to something that maybe seems so organic that is hard to be perceived. It was a master class and full of awesome tips! Thanks for the amazing work you develop.

@smashingenglish

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I'm so glad!🇬🇧☺️✨

@sajjadahamd1081

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​@@smashingenglish I'm absolute beginner how to improve English ?

Thank you for this lesson, this was really useful❤

Such a lovely jumpsuit (or it's not a jumpsuit 😅)! Anyway, I really love the colours and the contrast, and it suits you 🌻💙

@smashingenglish

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Oh thank you!☺️✨

Thank you so much! You too Have a good weekend. ❤

You are great🎉 This channel is so useful for improv myself❤

@smashingenglish

9 ай бұрын

Glad you think so!☺️☺️

Very interesting video. I am from Brazil (and then, Portuguese is my mother tongue) and the same phenomenon has been happening with (at least, Brazilian) Portuguese speakers for a long time. I cannot precise when it has started, but I would say it has been presented in the current spoken Portuguese for more than 15 years.

REMARKABLE, MODERN, AND HELPFUL VIDEO MATE

Excellent class!🎉 Ma'am, could you make a vid lesson on punctuation marks are used in story/novel, please ?❤

Another interesting video. I heard this way of speaking already quite often when I’m in England and my step kids and there friends are around me. Unfortunately your advise to watch some reality shows on TV or interview shows is only possible for me when I’m in the UK. Outside the UK most TV channels, apart from a handful News channels, are geoblocked and can’t be watched. 😞

intro was fun u make me smile most on your videos it is good to having fun while learning :D

This isn't the only weird pattern forming. I have noticed something that started with younger speakers, but has progressed to older speakers. I'm not certain what part of speech it is, but It is the overuse of MORE plus the simplified version of a word.(eg) - that was more big, than the other one. (meaning it was Bigger) - that was more tight, than I expected. (meaning it was Tighter) It is like, Great, Greater, Greatest, being replace with great, more great, way more great. Take a listen to most people speaking (at least in North America), and you here this overuse of MORE + (insert word here), rather that the change to the ending of the (insert word here) to emphasise something greater or a difference. If you haven't done a video about that, it might be worth a good 10 minutes. BTW, I'm a native English speaker, from Canada, and I love these snippets of the English Language. Cheers!😊

I found this video as recommendations, it's very whoaa.

Very nice video! And it's a phenomenon that is quite commom also here in Brazil.

@smashingenglish

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Oh really? How interesting!🤔

Trends change all the time. I used to constantly over use the word 'like' when I was younger. Hardly say it, nowadays.

Love it, thank you 🎊

@smashingenglish

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You are so welcome!☺️

Illiteracy is not only about inability to read and write, but rather how one poorly knows a language, too. In the Middle East we notice the same phenomena dominating the younger population, especially in former French colonised countries, Algeria, Morocco, etc - where the speakers jump from Arabic to French and back - seamlessly - unable to express in one language - owing to how poor they know both languages. The younger generation hardly read a proper book in their life from cover to cover - ever. Fine language-speaking is an indication on how Energy is wisely used by humans, or otherwise. Humans were not ready morally, ethically and intellectually to start mass extraction of fossil fuels with the steam engine 300 years ago - until now the reserves are almost depleted to the ground worldwide. The Magna Carta requires now overhauling - adding to it the right for humans to understand what Energy really is; "In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most. No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores. No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it. This universal truth applies to all systems. Energy, like time, flows from past to future". Wailing.

You need to do a video on lancashire, lass!

I felt exactly the same 20 years ago when I lived in my cousins place, who is naive and was 12. I could understand her parents well but found so tricky to understand her English

I watched this video and I was like WOW🤩

@johnshaves101

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#metoo

I thought this like-ism was adopted from the USA. Just as flourishing superlatives and exaggerations in the place of the good old British understatements that stereotypically distinguished the two cultures in literature and films.

I hear writing teachers telling us we should write like Hemingway in a very minimalist manner without much descriptive words and some are very adamant about that (Stephen King comes up in that regard) ... But when I talk to people, few actually want to read that style of writing. People prefer stuff like Tolkien and derivatives of him that is kind of purposefully old fashioned in this respect. So I guess we are kind of schizophrenic about what we think good language use is. (I get that that's a very loaded assumption anyway)

Very true, indeed, literally everyone is talking like what you mentioned, and I like it anyway🤣

I think you have a point that is WOW OMG

Using adjectives makes u look smart and adult but neglecting it makes u look childish & idiot . If we are talking in our own friends circle then it's ok to talk in any manner we want. But, in general conversation with people we shud use adjectives. And if we are r not habitual of using them from a younger age we won't be able to develop vocabulary which will lead to lack of confidence in future. Then what will be the difference between civilized people and tribals? I have heard similar way of talking in LA called 'California valley girl accent'. They use 'like' very much.

That's hip-hop teenage stuff

Good advice for me , Graham Norton show with Taylor Swift , she speaks actually very clear . like most British female celebrities can .

Très drôle et très vrai ! On fait la même chose au Kebak 😝

I think is something very common in general. In Spanish happens too!!!

Cheers

Folks nowadays can't even make expression without emojis

@smashingenglish

9 ай бұрын

Exactly!! Very interesting where language is going!

im in love

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Good dayyy sweet teacher

-J’ai mangé une poutine hier... -Pis? -J'étais genre "Ouache!, kessé ça?"

Can you make another Peaky Blinders Video? 😉

They are becoming ignorant. They will just won't be able to find an appropiate word to describe the idea/feeling. Sad, but is the reality nowadays.

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Watching your video, I'm like "Do I need adjectives?"

@smashingenglish

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😂

Super interesting! I think that social media, advertising, texting, etc. has wrecked our attention span and we have less patience in conversation for descriptive language, especially among young people. Ugh! I'm getting old!

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i was like" kể lại"

subject+ tobe+ like

I um...🤔😳🤪 and yeah y'know 😍

Dakota Johnson is our teacher now!

Hey there!

Good newz for new english learners as less vocab to work on.

@smashingenglish

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☺️😂

hello beauty teacher =))

This trend to insert the word like into everything seems to have come from California and the younger generation here being obsessed with American celebrity culture, particularly reality stars such as the Kardashians.

@stephenolan5539

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Right place, off by a generation. Look up Valley Girl.

You know , I have to mention that is not only happening in English , Russian young generation do the same .

The dumbing down of the language. It's a fad that originated in california.

You always say accent but do you mean dialect?

@smashingenglish

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Accent is a more widely used term in international communication- it’s far easier to attract my intended audience (people who do not speak English as a first language) by using this term.

You say 'lissennin' . Is that how native English people pronounce 'listening' ?

@kiwidutch9778

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@@bernd3781 I didn't aks you Buster !

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What is going on here, do native speakers still use adjectives, yes all the time.

@smashingenglish

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You didn’t finish the video, did you?

The language is dumbing down along with the population. Not a great trend.

what accent is peppa pig?

@stephenolan5539

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Preschool

@memelesardi9497

8 ай бұрын

Even Peppa Pig has more vocabulary than modern people... 🤣🤣🤣

Now lets fuse pronouns with verbs and dumb the English language down so much that everyone can learn it in a month! (Sarcasm).