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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This is very true. Technology shaped our society, but it is also ruining it. By creating a more efficient means of communication, it destroyed our language. By creating a quicker way to get to places, it made us lazier (not to mention increased urbanization, which means increased fuel emissions). What I'm getting at is that by solving one problem, it creates another. Technology like cell phones do really help our society, and with the way we are now, most of us could not comfortably live without one. Technology is important to our society, but it controls it too.
ReplyDeleteThat is a fantastic point. I am sure that I could live without my cell phone, but I am also sure that it would extremely difficult. I rely on technology for almost everything I do. I even count on technology to get me up in the morning.
DeleteThis topic kind of makes me think of the book Fahrenheit 451. A good quote from that book is, "Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me."
There are so many opportunities for conversation now because of Twitter and Facebook and things like that, but we don't really use them. We don't listen to anything anymore. We use other people words for cheap entertainment.
Back to the main point, I am starting to think that maybe, because of abbreviations and the shortening of words in general, words are losing their effect, their meaning. It's getting easier and easier to see them less as words, and more as just entertaining letters.