What is OMG and how does our language change?

The train of our life rushes with furious speed, without ceasing to gain momentum. Endless information spaces, an attempt to do one hundred things at once and, as a result, a constant lack of time, make us accelerate and accelerate. It is difficult for modern people to imagine the unhurriedness of the life of past centuries. Take for comparison, at least letters - our ancestors unhurriedly deduced their messages with a pen, sent them by coachman's mail and were accepted for weeks or even months to wait for an answer. Trains, airplanes, telephone, telegraph - the current mail has quickly flown through these milestones, and now we can not only correspond online, but also hear, and even see the person, wherever it is.

In accordance with the whole life, our speech also changes: both written and oral. For writing is very illustrative example of the use of various smileys. Previously, to describe their mood, it was required to find suitable words, to set them so that the interlocutor understood our feelings and became imbued with them. Now it is enough just to choose the appropriate face (although here too, had its own small evolution from the typed signs :-) to computer workpieces. And the pull to cuts allows the smiley to be replaced by just a brace-smile). Another example of using a picture on a letter can be a heart. "I'm Moscow" - here the symbol replaces the word "love".

Even more funny is the case with abbreviations in speech. For example, is it possible, without knowing, to guess what is OMG? Perhaps not, even if it is suggested that this is an abbreviation (a word formed from the initial letters or syllables of a word combination - the USA, a university, a collective farm, a hospital, etc.). And in the English-Russian dictionary it is hardly possible to find what is OMG. Although this is the English expression. In fact, OMG is the abbreviation of the very common English-language expression "Oh my God!" (The Russian equivalent is "My God!"). This phrase is used in the same way as in Russian, for the rapid expression of emotions, as a reaction to something seen, heard.

Usually, such cuts occur in the youth environment, especially often among active Internet users. But in this case, the authorship belongs to the British General Lord John Fisher, who used the expression in a letter addressed to Winston Churchill in 1917. Fisher applied the expression OMG in the exclamation, where he asked the Lord to send the Admiralty rewarding the knightly Order. And in brackets was immediately given the abbreviation OMG decoding. It is curious that this expression came into use almost 100 years later. And since 2011 the reduction has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary with an explanation of what is OMG.

Any language is, first of all, a means of communication of people. Since live communication is often replaced by a virtual one, the Internet also has a huge impact on the development of the language. The phenomenon of word reduction does not belong to any one language culture, it is, like the World Wide Web, everywhere. For example, the English tks (from "thanks") is similar to the Russian SPS (from "thanks"). Still, in spite of global disagreements, people of different nations are so similar to each other. OMG! (What is omg - see above)