Answer to Question #290333 in English for masisi

Question

What is the function of human language that allows for the formation of the words Twitter, Facebook and cyber-bullying found in the text?

Answer 1

Human language allows speakers to express thoughts in sentences comprising subjects, verbs and objects such as ‘I kicked the ball’ and recognizing past, present and future tenses.

A passage from this brief article about Twitter and Facebook’s effect on language sums it up well: “The word ‘friend’ is now widely used as a verb to mean adding someone on Facebook. The word ‘add’ is now widely used to mean sending an invite to connect Facebook accounts.

The words formation involves human language like Facebook, which has words such as face and book has human language in it to imply having a book of your face online. Cyberbullying has human language of bully using cyber which has an indication of being bullied online.