The researchers found phrases commonly used by parents and grandparents, as “a penny for your thoughts” and “a chip on the old block” are disappearing from everyday use, with only one in 10 people regularly using.
Only one in 20 people who knew what some of the adages meant or what their origin.
Most people blamed the speed of the media as Facebook and Twitter, which encourage the updates instead of short or long speech text. Although several of the identified phrases are very short.
Among the other phrases in the survey claimed are at risk are:
A chip of the old block
Never seen a kettle boils
Cat has your tongue?
As right as rain
Like a mad hatter
Tit for tat
Bless your cotton socks
A bad worker blames his tools
Wet behind the ears
Do not look a gift horse in the mouth
Bringing home the bacon
The study found 63 per cent of parents and grandparents still regularly use the adages.
But three-quarters of respondents said that the sentences are considered threatened with extinction.
And three quarters of people only use Twitter and Facebook to keep in contact said they had not heard of more than half of the sentences.
It also emerged the average person now has three conversations with friends every day, two of which are online and one of which is a phone call.
The research was carried out by onepoll.com, a market research company of the Internet, which surveyed 4,000 people younger than 30 years.
A spokesman for the company said: “It’s a shame that these more colloquial, historical and poetic expressions are disappearing in favor of reduced, more focused and less ambiguous.
“However, not much of a surprise when you consider that television and the Internet has taken the place of family conversation in the evening.
“And now that children are increasingly using communications technology that previous generations could not have dreamed of, such as mobile phones, social networks and Twitter, so the disappearance of verbal links with the past can only be expected an increase. ”
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So with the growth of technology, people lose their grasp on conversation and ultimately are dumbing themselves down..what else is new?
*shrugs* I’m a 22 year old American and I know what most of those sayings are and use them in regular everyday conversation. Facebook shouldn’t be blamed for lack of conversation from elder to child, the family should be blamed for not yanking their kids off the computer enough.