As technology advances, new forums of expressing and composing ideas become readily available to the general public. Today, the internet allows for many to communicate through blogs and chat rooms; however the most apparent and direct form of online communication occurs through text messages. Texting has quickly gained popularity among all demographics throughout the past few years, especially those of younger age groups. This new generation of young adults have been coined to the term “generation text” and many believe that the language implemented in texting has had negative effects on the grammar and spelling of the overall generation. This, however, is not entirely true. Although quite different from the traditional way of writing; the
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The claim is that vast amount of abbreviations such as l8r for later, 2 for to/too, and ppl for people are increasing the amount of spelling mistakes made by students. Many believe that texting is mostly composed of all these abbreviations, however studies show that only a mere 10% of all the words in text messages are actually abbreviated. This means that 90% of the words used by students in text messages are in the correct Standard English many are familiar with. In addition, the 10% of the time that students abbreviate their text messages, they leave letters out of their words. But why do students leave letters out? “Because it’s cool to leave letters out. But if it’s cool to leave a letter out, you’ve got to know that it’s there in the first place, in order to leave it out” answers David Crystal, a respectable English linguistic professor, during his appearance on the television show It’s only a Theory. Admittedly, the argument could still be made that these abbreviations lead some students to think words are spelled certain ways which are incorrect, which could very well be an uprising problem in the future. However, if this were true, textisms would show up in various other places, such as in school essays. This is typically not the case as most students know that …show more content…
For example, text message addiction has been recognized and combated by addiction clinics, such as the national Americans addiction center. (http://americanaddictioncenters.org/). In addition, the use of our phones and text messages has been shown to lead to a decline in real life daily social interactions. People in society tend to linger on their phones rather than engage in real life conversations. However, none of these negative aspects associated with texting contradict the thesis of this essay, which only discusses the relationship between texting and English literature. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h79V_qUp91M)
The only aspect of text messaging which clearly has a negative correlation with the English language is the use of autocorrect, which renders students lazy and inhibits learning the proper spelling. Many High School students have become dependent on not just autocorrect, but many other spell-checkers. This leads to students misspelling words on assignments. There is, however, a simple solution to the problem of autocorrect and other spell-checker, and that is to simply disable the feature on your phone or writing
The claim is that vast amount of abbreviations such as l8r for later, 2 for to/too, and ppl for people are increasing the amount of spelling mistakes made by students. Many believe that texting is mostly composed of all these abbreviations, however studies show that only a mere 10% of all the words in text messages are actually abbreviated. This means that 90% of the words used by students in text messages are in the correct Standard English many are familiar with. In addition, the 10% of the time that students abbreviate their text messages, they leave letters out of their words. But why do students leave letters out? “Because it’s cool to leave letters out. But if it’s cool to leave a letter out, you’ve got to know that it’s there in the first place, in order to leave it out” answers David Crystal, a respectable English linguistic professor, during his appearance on the television show It’s only a Theory. Admittedly, the argument could still be made that these abbreviations lead some students to think words are spelled certain ways which are incorrect, which could very well be an uprising problem in the future. However, if this were true, textisms would show up in various other places, such as in school essays. This is typically not the case as most students know that …show more content…
For example, text message addiction has been recognized and combated by addiction clinics, such as the national Americans addiction center. (http://americanaddictioncenters.org/). In addition, the use of our phones and text messages has been shown to lead to a decline in real life daily social interactions. People in society tend to linger on their phones rather than engage in real life conversations. However, none of these negative aspects associated with texting contradict the thesis of this essay, which only discusses the relationship between texting and English literature. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h79V_qUp91M)
The only aspect of text messaging which clearly has a negative correlation with the English language is the use of autocorrect, which renders students lazy and inhibits learning the proper spelling. Many High School students have become dependent on not just autocorrect, but many other spell-checkers. This leads to students misspelling words on assignments. There is, however, a simple solution to the problem of autocorrect and other spell-checker, and that is to simply disable the feature on your phone or writing