He said: "I think we're living in a time when our ears are attuned to a flattened and truncated sense of our English language, so this always begs the question, is Shakespeare relevant? But I love this language we have and what it can do, and aside from that I think the themese in his plays are always relevant."
Fiennes, who does not use Twitter, is not alone in his theory. JP Davidson, the author of Planet Word and a linguistic expert, talked this week about longer words dying out in favour of shortened text message-style terms.
He said: ?You only have to look on Twitter to see evidence of the fact that a lot of English words that are used say in Shakespeare?s plays or PG Wodehouse novels ? both of them avid inventors of new words ? are so little used that people don?t even know what they mean now.
?This could be viewed as regrettable, as there are some great descriptive words that are being lost and these words would make our everyday language much more colourful and fun if we were to use them.
?But it?s only natural that with people trying to fit as much information in 140 characters that words are getting shortened and are even becoming redundant as a result.?
Ralph Fiennes was speaking after he received the British Film Institute Fellowship at the BFI London Film Festival awards in Old Street.
In 2007 Fiennes won the James Joyce award given by the Literary and Historical Society.
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