Ralph Fiennes blames Twitter for 'eroding' the English language [Independent.ie]
- Published: 28 October 2011
ENGLISH actor Ralph Fiennes said that social networking sites such as Twitter are dumbing down the English language.
Speaking at the BFI London Film Festival awards in Old Street, London, the actor said that modern language "is being eroded" and blamed "a world of truncated sentences, soundbites and Twitter."
"Our expressiveness and our ease with some words is being diluted so that the sentence with more than one clause is a problem for us, and the word of more than two syllables is a problem for us," he said.
Fiennes, full name Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, said that students at drama schools were especially suffering thanks to social networking sites.
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