Language Conventions Part One

17th, Tuesday, December, 2013


 The multitude of language conventions spreads far and wide from the very formal to the rather lazy and effortless.

 Very formal being the language you would see in a letter from your accountant or in a bank managers letter, that would be addressing changes of serious going ons within your back and account so of course this is completely necessary to be written in a formal way also. 


 Other language conventions such as social network posts such as posts to Twitter and Facebook don't need to be formal in any way as I have spoke in my previous blog entry, these social networking sites are not required for you to speak in great detail therefore that 140 character limit on twitter, its meant to be quick, fast and on the go. Other uses of informal language would be an email or letter to family or a friend as you would like to know how they are and what they have been doing recently.

 With formal you would possibly be writing to a boss or to your bank manager and as you most likely wont know them as a friend or family you must speak to them in a formal way as this is much more appreciated then having them reading a disembowelment of the English language for them to try and struggle to read.

 If you would like to apply for a job you are going to need to be able to write a cover letter in a formal way in order to give yourself a fighting chance against the other 50 people that apply for that same job. So the point I feel as if I have almost got across is that both form of writing have very different ways of displaying and portraying information and data.