Reaction: I have quite a few foreign friends and I always hear them complain that the English language is so difficult to learn. And I can't disagree. Many of our words have more than one meanings and then we have the words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings. The English language is definitely complex. This artle is talking about how reforms to change English have never been successful until now, with texting. I disagree. Texting is NOT CHANGING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE and these people need to calm down. The world won't stop turning because Suzy Joe texted Billy that she had a "gr8 time" on their "d8 last nite." And the majority if people don't even actually text like that. The novelty of that went away with the flip phone. I would argue that the writer of these articles have no idea what they are talking about. They need to be actually the kids that they believe are doing this and not just assume. They are freaking out over nothing. Out of all the people I text only ONE texts in "text-lingo" and it's not even that bad. Most kids actually text the full words. And no one stops to consider why the words have been shortened...maybe it's because one text message can only contain 160 characters. So why use space to write "that was funny" when you could just simply put "lol"? It;s not because we're lazy, we just don't want to send two messages for just a few words. As for the kids who do put letters in their words and completely butcher the spellings...it won't last for long. Trust me.
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The OutSource Group, Inc. | Texting. (n.d.). Texting Archive. Retrieved September 6, 2011, from http://www.theoutsourcegroup.net/blog/?tag=texting
SHEA, A. (2010, January 22). On Language - The Keypad Solution - NYTimes.com. NY Times Advertisement. Retrieved September 6, 2011, from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24FOB-onlanguage-t.html
I am 100% agreeing with your reaction. Since the full keyboard on phones pretty much the majority of the population is spelling out their words and even if they don't want to the T9 (T9 is the auto-correct feature that is on almost all smart phones now) corrects them and spells it out for them. As I perceive it now, if someone does not spell out their words and have a full keyboard they are trying to be trendy or are just plain ignorant and honestly in a text I can't tell the difference. Although I will say LOL is one of my favorites and has pretty much evolved into its own word.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you talked about the fact that most kids don't text like that. We have a tendency to keep up with trends so as you said, when the flip phone and short hand texting went out, we stopped doing it. Of all the people I text, the only ones that put letters in their words are adults.
ReplyDeleteLOL I think your reaction is perfect for this article. Some people are getting to worked up over a new technology that some people don't like. Many people, especially the older generations don't like change. As time go on I think more people won't get so upset about the "texting lingo"
ReplyDeleteI 100% agree, kids do not text like that. I feel like people really need to calm down about the whole "text lingo" thing. Of course kids who have just got into the texting world will do different acronyms for words because they feel like it's the cool thing to do. As they grow older they will grow out of this habit. It becomes very old and out of date as they get into their higher education.
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