How Is Ethos Pathos Logos Used To Address The Destruction Of English Language

Everyone makes mistakes in their writing. As time progresses people are getting more lazy when it comes to constructing a piece of writing. Sloppy habits, writing with slang terms, and utilizing tools such as spell-check or grammar-check have contributed to the devolution of the English language. In the essay “I H8 TXT MSGS”, John Humphrys employs the appeals logos, pathos, and ethos, directed toward texters; to address the destruction of the English language by mainstream grammatical errors used in text messaging. Humphrys utilizes logos, persuading with the use of reasoning; through analogies and hard evidence to recognize the loss of English language by text messaging. Grammatically incorrect language is compared to Genghis Khan as it has “destroyed” the English language; “pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences;” and “raping our vocabulary” ( Humphrys 16). By applying the analogy of improper grammar and the Mongolian emperor, the writer effectively portrays the crudeness of texting that quell proper English. The loss of proper English led to the adaption of past grammatical rules, “changing the way we communicate, which means, that we no longer have time to reach for the hyphen key” (A.

The writer instills devastation as his “lifetime love affair with the OED is at risk… falling victim to fashion” (Humphrys 6). This devastation is due to the loss of a rich dictionary. Grammatical errors have become mainstream; old English dissolves into a lazy communication by pop-culture and texting. Also Humphrys imparts a feeling of “betrayal” by the changing of the “precious dictionary” (Humphrys 10). The dictionary is changed, removing the hyphen because it requires one extra keystroke. The use of texting has resulted in laziness and betrayal of writing on the English