The Effect of Latinization on Reading Time and Understanding: Greeklish in Communication and Social Media

Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.4236/sn.2023.123005
E. Kehris, George I. Karavasilis, Vasiliki G. Vrana, Dimitrios Kydros
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The increasing prevalence of technology in society has an impact on young people’s language use and development. Greeklish is the writing of Greek texts using the Latin instead of the Greek alphabet, a practice known as Lati-nization, also employed for many non-latin alphabet languages. The primary aim of this research is to evaluate the effect of Greeklish on reading time. A sample of 732 young Greeks were asked about their habits when communicating through e-mail and social media with their friends and they then participated in an experiment in which they were asked to read and understand two short texts, one written in Greek and the other in Greeklish. The findings of the research show that nearly one third of the participants use Greeklish. The results of the experiment conducted reveal that understanding is not affected by the alphabet used but reading Greeklish is significantly more time consuming than reading Greek independently of the sex and the familiarity of the participants with Greeklish. The findings suggest that amending social and communication media with software utilities related to Latinization such as language identifiers and converters may reduce reading time and thus facilitate written communication among the users.
拉丁化对阅读时间和理解的影响:交际和社交媒体中的希腊语
科技在社会中的日益普及对年轻人的语言使用和发展产生了影响。希腊英语是用拉丁语而不是希腊字母来书写希腊文本,这种做法被称为拉丁化,也被用于许多非拉丁字母语言。本研究的主要目的是评估希腊语对阅读时间的影响。732名希腊年轻人被问及他们通过电子邮件和社交媒体与朋友交流的习惯,然后他们参加了一项实验,要求他们阅读和理解两篇短文,一篇用希腊语写,另一篇用希腊语写。研究结果显示,近三分之一的参与者使用希腊语。实验结果表明,理解不受使用的字母的影响,但阅读希腊语明显比阅读希腊语花费更多的时间,而不受性别和参与者对希腊语的熟悉程度的影响。研究结果表明,使用与拉丁化相关的软件工具(如语言标识符和转换器)修改社交和通信媒体可能会减少阅读时间,从而促进用户之间的书面交流。
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