Playing Seriously and Seriously Playing: Blogging Living Langauge

1: Is it necessary to have a common language to truly understand one another?
2: the English language is mad, kooky, wacky, and totally bombastic. Makeup your own fun sentences, and unlocks the power of words. Today!  -@Irish _Dinosaur RT
3: Language can be used to convey so much, but are our emotions limited by the extent of our language?
4: Communication is key. #wordstoliveby
5: One language is never seems to be enough. Maybe that’s why we have to take a language in school.
6: Fun fact: The United States does not have an official language.
7: I purchased one of those expensive Rosetta Stone foreign language learning programs so I can finally learn how to order coffee at Starbucks. -@Carmel_Coleman RT
8: There are so many languages and code tricks to learn within cultures #dontsoundclueless
9: I’ve developed a special language of annoyed sighs and frustrated exhales to better communicate with my family, children, and ppl in general. -@Imajika25 RT
10: This girl thinks gestures and exaggerated breathing methods equal effective communication #issheserious
11: It makes me so mad when people don’t know English and don’t even try to learn it, you came to AMERICA, here we speak English. -@ohhdaamnsam RT
12: Not everyone speaks the same language, but that doesn’t make one inferior to another
13: Should everyone have to learn and speak the language of the majority population living in a country?
14: What is the point of grammar if we can usually get our point across without it?
15: There are so many different ways to communicate with others #eyeopening
16: #LT Spoken word, written word, text, tweets, sign language, gestures, noises, grunts
17: Lack of communication leads to fear, anger, disunity, and turnover. What they don’t know while hurt them. -@EntreLeadership RT
18: I wonder if the lack of a universal language is what leads to a lot of the conflict between different cultures around the world
19: But at the same time, a universal language would suck out the individuality of dialects and codes that make up the human tongue
20: The use of technology is making communication more and more impersonal
21: Phone calls and face to face encounters are less common
22: Is humanity losing the ability to hold a conversation?
23: Right now I could be talking in a French accent and you wouldn’t know
24: #Dutch is considered one of the easiest languages for an English speaker to learn. -@Languagebandit RT
25: Most English speakers probably can identify these colors from #Dutch: rood, blauw, groen, oranje, bruin, & wit. -@Languagebandit RT
26: The world is changing so much and language will change too, regardless of what a select powerful group may want.
27: The increasing use of technology may build bridges between the world, but it is diminishing the need for personal interactions and the development of spoken word, regardless of differences. 
I found it to be extremely difficult to communicate what I wanted to say in each tweet within the 140 character limit. I had a lot of ideas, but having to convey them was hard considering I had to break up the points in tweets. My thoughts jumped from place to place and it was easy to get distracted by other trending topics instead of focusing on reaching my eventual thesis. It is clear that having to communicate over the internet could create potential problems in the future, as it is challenging to complete a full thought in 140 characters. Despite this, I think that I was able to develop a string of tweets that lead to an overall message. This exploration of the English language through the Twitter world was aided by fellow tweeters, whose tweets I “retweeted” several times. The opinions on language and communication varied greatly, but there seemed to be a general appreciation and recognition of its importance. The increasing use of technology may build bridges between the world, but it is diminishing the need for personal interactions and the development of spoken word, regardless of differences.