Many people today have many different opinions about texting and it’s modification of our language. The articles “2b or not 2b” and “I h8 txt msgs” is both about texting and language change. However, one supports this idea, while the other one rejects it.
According to the article “2b or not 2b?”, texting is not that bad. Infact, it is helping those who are typing. “The most important finding is that texting does not erode children’s ability to read and write. On the contrary, literacy improves. The latest studies have found strong positive links...The more abbreviations in their messages, the higher they scored on tests of spelling and vocabulary.” Research and studies show that texting like this-is hlpful 4 ppl. Also, people have been initializing common phrases for years. A modern “LOL” is similar to “SWALK”. This includes an IOU which have been around from 1618. There are many forms for texting abbreviations and there is often no consistency between texters. You may see forms like agn for “again” or msg for “message”. Non of this is new. Eric Patridge published his Dictionary of Abbreviations in 1942-50 years before texting was even invented. Abbreviations used in texting is common and is even used long ago.
The article “I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language”, it written by Humphrey, who gives lots of goods evidence on how texting is wrecking our language. Some things that Humphrey stated in the article was that texting was destroying the language: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; “ravaging” our vocabulary and they must be stopped. Another reason what Humphrey stated was he said that most people are starting to use abbreviations and that is undecipherable. Humphrey thinks that when many people text people are slipping into sloppy habits and abandoning things like capital letters and punctuation. Carelessness and laziness of not using capital letters punctuation is not a good practice because the people who do so are not only showing that they are lazy and careless, they are showing that they do not really respect their language.
I think that texting and language change is completely fine and normal. People have been using abbreviations for years and years, way before texting came, showing that the texting and language change isn't actually changing anything meaning that it can't change things for better or for worse. There is even a dictionary of abbreviations that was created years before the first phone. I think that texting and language change is fine.
ReplyDeleteI think that texting is fine. It is easy to access and stuff.
ReplyDeleteVery great essay, well written. Lots of information. Texting, I think, is fine.
ReplyDeleteNice essay! I think the evidence was very supportive. However, I think you should have put a final paragraph in, tying together both opinions with a conclusion.
ReplyDeleteAlso, instead of just stating each topic, because it kind of felt like two different essays, there should be words such as "in contrast" or "as well as" to show that both articles are different, but same in some ways.
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