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Linguists of Petra Christian University, Prof. Dr. Esther Kuntjara, judging that a number of social networking sites in cyberspace, such as Facebook and Twitter, and the like have been damaging language.

“That’s because the virtual world using oral, written language, not a written language or spoken language spoken language is written so that could disrupt the standard language,” he said during a seminar.

After talking to the seminar “Language in The Online and Offline World (LOOW)” was initiated by the Department of English Literature UK’s Petra, Petra UK lecturers stated that spoken language is written it is known as the Alay.

“I myself know that Alay language terms instead of browsing through Facebook. What is clear, the language that mixed Alay between written, oral, and the image so everything became a mess,” he said.

According to alumni Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana (SWCU) Salatiga, the language disorder was seen as laying barge images and emotions sometimes also disclosed inappropriately.

“For example, if states are written by LOL laugh out loud. In fact, it is possible that the author actually was angry, not laughing, so everything becomes chaotic or complicated, ‘said S2 alumni from San Francisco State University, USA, that.

Strangely, the broken language that is regarded as the creativity he said. “Native language in cyberspace is creative, but if it breaks the damage kok creative sort, really,” he said, smiling.

S3 lecturers who are also alumni of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, United States (U.S.), it says that the virtual world also led to a volatile figure in one time. “The identity of the virtual world is easily modified so that if we want, what I can, even talked to so many people with different characters can also be, let alone change the status on Facebook is also very easy,” he said.

He added damage to the language and easy change of identity in cyberspace generation bore a bold attitude and asocial or individualistic. “How not to say asocial, because fathers, mothers, and children know each activity only through the virtual world. Inside Facebook, the boy said I was in the shower, mom says if she was eating, and so forth. All through the BB (Blackberry ), “he said.

On the other hand, under such conditions, he said, Indonesia was lagging behind in the new vocabulary in terms of information technology so that people take the original language, such as computers, online, download, upload, and websites, and so forth. “It has strived to download or download the translated pages, website, but it was defeated quickly so it does not sell,” he said. (Kompas)