Language of Choice
Language in today’s world is the most popular and common way of communication used by approximately 7.9 billion people living on Earth. It is the tool that allows people to connect, thus, making it paramount to choose the language carefully for communication. Either a person can choose a compassionate and empathetic language or an impious and vulgar one. And to my dismay, most people in today’s generation tend to go for the second one, that is, foul and abusive language.
In today’s scenario, one possibly cannot ignore the unfortunate fact that teenagers and adolescents use abusive language in their daily communications. They are usually rude and use inappropriate words. Even towards the elders, they don’t show respect.
They perceive using bad words in their daily communications as a “trend” that they must follow to keep up with their peer groups. This mentality seems to affect a lot of teenagers at large.
The root cause of such an attitude of today’s generation is social media platforms and OTTs (Over-the-top). In today’s tech-words, social media is a vast platform that offers networking sites for communication and entertainment. This vastness of social media suggests that not all websites provide a righteous and safe-working environment for children. In most of them, we regularly witness the use of abusive language — maybe during texting, in some posts, and so on. The words spoken in movies and series provided by OTTs are often impious. The celebrities whom we fancy often use inappropriate language.
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When such a lamentable environment exists everywhere, how can today’s generation be expected to stand out? Being tech-friendly, they are likely to be influenced by such a prevailing “trend”.
But if we still feel it necessary to keep the youth from using profane language, then teenagers must be taught compassion and sympathy. The filmmakers must recognize the impact of their films on society and on developing brains. They should restrict using abusive words in their movies especially, those with age limits below 18. Celebrities must use their words carefully in public and during media sessions. They should know that their words impact the youth who consider them their idols.
Apart from this, the government should closely regulate films. They should put age restrictions on those depicting vulgarity. There should be campaigns to teach the youth to spread love, to not only the ones they know but also to strangers who need empathetic words to cope with their loneliness. They should realize that using abusive language affects communication along with a person.
At last and most importantly,
The language chosen by you doesn’t only describe you but also reflects much about your family background. So the choice of language entirely is yours!
Thanks for reading!
