Summary:
Sloppiness virus spreads too many aspects of our modern society widely to ignore its existence. However, people regard it as a type of fashionable or popular thing. Norman Cousins, the author of this article, claims that there are three major areas which are affected obviously.
The first aspect that Cousins mentions is clothing. Our modern clothing is no longer a neat looking, and frayed, discolored, shabby blue jeans, which manufacturers think them as a hot chick, become representative of this generation. In other words, neatness is totally out of date. After that, Cousins also claims that our speech and expression have some problems in this generation. Through out the television and movie, “violence in language has become as casual as the possession of handguns.” However, this situation is gradually hurting our children. Cousins concludes that the reason why violence in language shows up is because of the casual attitude. In the end, he tells that all of the sloppiness, like emotion, and speech affect our human relationships deeply. Some attitude about sex in the movie or a television series deaden our feeling and affect our privacy. Finally, Cousins does not want to go back to the Victorian decorum, but it does not mean that he supports the sloppiness in our life. He really hopes sloppiness can disappear as soon as possible, and he also hopes we will all begin to “locate the best in ourselves and put it to work” at the same time.
Response:
In the modern life, you can find out many things become sloppy totally, and it gradually spreads to our daily life. However, the sloppiness of using words can be the representatives and it is the most affected aspects among others without doubt. We no longer use a complete sentence to express our idea and thought instead of a noun, a phrase or even an abbreviation. “Thx” means “thanks”, and “ILY” means “I love you”. On the other hand, “you know”, which is not a formal word in some situation, becomes a kind of fashion to be as a pet phrase. Meanwhile, the four-letter words become more common because of the media. In other words, the elder people would feel confused about the reason why the four-letter words are so usual in the modern times, but I think we will not have the same feeling at all.
In my opinion, I can regard this sloppiness of language using as a kind of youthful culture. If this can make conversation become more convenient and understandable, I think we can use that and try to understand this culture. Nevertheless, it is still too casual to use in some formal situations, such as an interview or a piece of News. It is forbidden to use these kinds of words in a seminar, a discussion, or a press conference. In conclusion, I think the sloppiness is a habit of teenagers, or a modern culture, but it is not formal for some situations. We need to pay much attention on the word we use.
After reading you article, I agree that sloppy gradually spreads to our daily life. According to the media in our society, we can find that people use different words or even short sentences while they are communicating. Young people change the meaning of words and they often add some four-letter words while talking with their classmates. Some people may imitate those words from TV programs, and those words become the tendency toward people. Some older people may think those words are offended and rude words. For me, I think even if it truly become youthful culture I don’t think those rude words can be accepted for me. I think it should be forbidden in every situation because it may bring bad influence for young children. If they accept those bad messages from our society, can you imagine what people will they be when they grow up? Maybe he will become a person full of many four-letter words in his speech. If they grow up in this environment, how can they become a great people? We shouldn’t let that sloppiness overflow our society, so we should find a way to eliminate language violence. Restore the society as environment without language violence, and it can save the next generation.
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