Experts rule out that technology threatens the Spanish language

New forms of communication in the digital media not jeopardize the survival of Spanish, because the language of the mobile internet or creates habits but not the language of the future ", while new technologies ensure multilingualism in a English context retraction.

The Spanish language professor at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Ramon Sarmiento has raised these thoughts today in Santander, introducing the study "The quality of Spanish on the Net", which has coordinated with Professor Fernando Vilches and published by the Fundación Telefónica.

The presentation took place at the International University Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP), at an event in which they intervened executive vice president of the Fundación Telefónica, Javier Nadal, and the rector of the academic institution, Salvador Ordonez.

The study that coordinate the two professors at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos is a collective volume, in which a dozen authors, from academia and the media.

This volume deals with the encounter between the Spanish language and new forms of communication: websites, email, chat, blog, or text messages, and addresses the proliferation of new typefaces, writing forms, neologisms and symbols, such as called "emoticons".

Sarmiento has invited not to be afraid at this picture, because "we must not think that the Spanish are going to end" and, at most, there will be changes "minimal" and that "sooner or later" would have to occur in the natural evolution of the tongue. As a possible example has been referred to a unification of z and s.

This professor says that with the massive use of new technologies and expansion of communication forms, it tends to multilingualism, with a drop of English, the traditionally dominant language.

"English can be as a trade language or science, but the only clear path is that of multilingualism," emphasizes Professor at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.

The study coordinator has put the development of the Spanish language within a real revolution in which new technologies will open doors in areas such as education.

In his view, the key element in that process will be the motive, the usability that the computer and opening a field "explode" in education.

For this teacher, the future of education will go through the use of these phones, but "broader" and more characters as a device to deliver content to the classroom and internet access, a phenomenon that will "change the world" .

But Sarmiento has drawn attention to the importance of writing correctly in forums, chats or blogs, spaces where the messages are instant and errata persist if not corrected, unlike mobile phones with text messages "perishable" which are erased and discarded.

The executive vice president of the Fundación Telefónica, like Sarmiento, the Spanish felt that "no danger of death" for the use of internet and new technologies, but has asked that following an initial approach to this issue, we think is about language and "if necessary to protect or not."

"We have saved the first phase of survival and now we have to improve the use and create new forms of communication," Nadal has reviewed.