A lot of people text. A good bit of people have more conversations over messaging than face-to-face, or even over the phone. I personally prefer talking face to face or over the phone than texting. Mostly because texting is really hard. It takes so much longer for me to type out a sentence on my phone than to just say it, and I refuse to abbreviate. I feel like I am the only one who takes forever to figure out how to properly shorten words, and to figure out what it means when other people do it.
But, because acronyms like "OMG", "LOL, and "TMI" being used so often, they are actually being added the dictionary. Texting is actually changing the English language!
Some people are saying that the change isn't bad. Language changes all the time.
Others are saying that texting isn't just changing English, but ruining it. Research has shown that teens have had decreasing scores on grammar tests because of texting.
I want to hear what you think. Is texting ruining the English language? Do you text? And if you do, do you use abbreviations?Leave a comment.
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