In George Orwell’s popular novel, “1984,” he speaks of a world where everything even thought is controlled. The dystopian’s language is simply monitored by what is called Newspeak. Although our world today is not exactly like what was predicted to happen in 1984, our language is shrinking.

“The sophistication of language is decreasing because we text with emojis and don’t focus on the grammar aspect of the word,” senior Marriam Hassan said. “We use smaller words and keep making them smaller in order to fit it into a text.”

Professor Ogden considers “Basic English” to be a vocabulary of no more than 850 words. While statistics show that the average college student can get by his or her entire life with a vocab of no more than 100,000 words.

“I feel that texting has allowed us to take shortcuts everywhere,” senior Alex Peuser said. “While we can get the point across it is detached and less emotional. Technology allows for us to remove the emotional aspect of communication.”

Nowadays, because of technology, “be right back,” is no simply “brb” and “aegis” is no more than “grey.” People are constantly shortening words and because of this our colorful language is going with it.

“At the rate we are going, only three letters in a message will dictate a full sentence,” sophomore Emilie Dayton said.