Raise your voice, open your mind, unlock your imagination
Act 1 Scene 1 Summary
Characters : The three witches
Location : A desert place
Time: Unknown ( before the end of the battle)
Events: The Witches plan to meet again after the battle is over. They plan to meet Macbeth on the heath
Quote: “fair is foul and foul is fair” – paradox
Hypothesis
That Spoken language is more formal and grammatically correct that text language. In our conversation this is true.
Evidence
Spoken text
Laugh lol
Yeah the boys YTB
What are you doing? Wyd
In text language formality and grammar tends to be non existent. You wouldn’t say Wyd when talking to someone in person, adults would think you were crazy. You would ask the person what are you doing, but if you’re texting someone it’s much faster and easier to skip the words and just abbreviate. In person someone might be offended by the informality of Wyd however in a text conversation they wouldn’t because the other person understands how painful it can be typing out a massive message.
Another part of text which takes away formality is the loss of punctuation. Most people aren’t going to bother taking the time to add commas, full stops, capital letters or apostrophes to a text that there sending to a friend. In spoken language there is no physical form of punctuation, however there a verbal techniques used to show it. Such as a pause in Spoken language is a comma in written.
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Righto!
Chris Waugh