How Does Texting Kill Our Language

In the article “2b or not 2b”, David Crystal begins with discussing how others such as John Humphry argued that texters are “vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbors 800 years ago. They are destroying it” (335). This is also the common belief of most people. People often argue about the bad points of technology over our language. However, Crystal believes that texting can improve children’s ability to read and write rather than hinder their literacy as many people claim. He also argues that not all texting are done in abbreviated words. Complex messages and institutional messages are often texted in standard form of

In Michaela Cullington’s essay titled, “Does Texting Affect Writing?” the author tests the ongoing question of how today’s youth handles the effects of texting in the education system. Using successful evidence from both sides of the argument as well as participating in her own experiment, Cullington is able to fully demonstrate how texting does not interfere with today’s students and their abilities to write formally in the classroom.

“Texting is developing its own kind of grammar and conventions.” said John McWhorter. In John McWhorter’s speech, he provided facts that logically texting and writing is two separate language. I presented earlier that my opinion is that texting is a new genre of language, so I grouped it as foreign language. Some people like myself might have a second language, but when I’m writing essay or any formal documents, I don’t uses them. Technically, we are taught to determine the environment and our audiences before writing, so texting will not make you unintelligence or cause confusion toward literature

We as a society are evolving with each generation to come. We are getting stronger, faster, and smarter. Just as cell phones are no longer square blocks with numbers on them and TV’s are not in black and white, writing itself has also evolved. Once upon a time many wrote and spoke in a Shakespearean form of language and over the years it has evolved into something we call modern English. In recent years, technology has advanced greatly and cell phones have become one of our primary use of communication. With cell phones came a new form of writing called text messaging. Text messaging is used to send short, concise messages to anyone around the world. Often times text messages involve the use of abbreviations which stand for different things and also involves frequent use of emoji’s as a form of expression. This form of writing is now considered informal writing and is not acceptable in academic settings. In Michaela Cullington’s essay “Does Texting Affect Writing?” she touches on both sides of whether texting is hindering students writing or if it’s actually having a positive effect. She then makes is clear that she believes most students are educated enough to know when text speak is appropriate and when it’s not so therefore it has no effect on students. Although, I agree with her thesis, she lacks credibility due to her insufficient evidence. In addition, I also believe

Recently I read ‘Feed’, by M.T Anderson, a dystopian novel about how advancement in technology is negatively affecting our society and the way we communicate with each other. The author led me to believe that these advancements, such as texting, are causing our language to deteriorate. Further research proves that texting may be improving and many are learning to accept. When the era of the written word dies, will we be left with an illiterate generation with poor grammar? Students are texting constantly. In and out of class, it is becoming a bigger and bigger part of their lives. Some might say that we are creating a less literate generation, but research shows that texting improves student literacy for three reasons. First, texting improves

After reading Texting and Writing, by Michaela Cullington, I do not agree with many of her viewpoints. Cullington argues that texting does not affect a students writing. Textspeak, the abbreviation and shortening of words like used when writing a text message, does affect the way a student writes because they use the abbreviations, and their writings tend to lack punctuation. When a writer uses excessive abbreviations on a regular basis they can get stuck in the writer’s head causing them to use them in all of their writings. Cullington did make good points of her own opinion on texting and writing in her piece, but I disagree with her and believe that texting and

There has been claims that texting can adversely affect students’ formal writing skills. Michaela Cullington, author of “Does Texting Affect Writing”, responds to these claims by saying that texting does not affect students’ formal writing but helps them improve it. She mentions that texting teaches students’ how to write concisely, students’ know that textspeak is only appropriate when texting and not when writing formally, and that texting allows students’ to have a casual setting to practice their writing which help improve their formal writing. All of Cullington’s arguments are invalid; texting does harm students’ formal writing in multiple ways such as: writing texts “concisely” is not beneficial since students will forget how to expand

Throughout “Does Texting Affect Writing?” words such as textspeak, communication, writing, writing abilities, students and teenagers are

In recent discussion of, “Does Texting Affects Writing” by Michaela Cullington, one view is that texting has a negative impact on teens and their writing. Cullington shows both sides of what students, teachers, and professors have to say about the issue of texting; yet after research this belief may not prove to be true. Then she writes about personal experience regarding the issue.

As texting becomes more popular, especially within the new generations, a new language has evolved of shorthand and abbreviations. However, just because this new language is being used, it does not mean that it is affecting academic writing. The way new generations write when texting does not worsen their academic writing. In a video published by TedTalks, “John McWhorter: Txtng is killing language. JK!!!” John McWhorter talks about how texting might not actually be affecting the English language and that texting is not the reason why people write incorrectly. People have been writing incorrectly for centuries and some studies even prove texting improves writing.

In the article” Is Texting Killing the English Language?” from TIME, they start the article off with one critic referring to texting as the downfall for the written word. “Penmanship for illiterates,” The article goes not agree with the critic. The article explains that texting is the new kind of talking. In these times there is hardly any hand written correspondence. If you want to reach out to someone you send then an email or the most common is a text. Texting has made reaching out to someone so easy and convenient. If you have a thought, or an idea you grab your phone and send a text message. You usually have a response within seconds. I don’t think that technology is killing the written language; I feel that it is just making it easier to have quick communication with others. I feel that texting is like short hand you are abbreviating words to get your message across quickly. Our society is so rushed and

Thesis statement: In this paper, I will discuss how the frequent use of text messaging by teens today negatively affects literacy and I will offer suggestions that parents and teachers can implement and teach in order to raise reading, writing, and vocabulary skills.

I will analysing two articles one of them being John Humphry’s article “I h8 txt msgs: how texting is wrecking our language” and David Crystal “2b or not 2b” analysis of text messages looking at what kind of language do they use and other kind of language devices.

For the past few centuries, the English language has been constantly evolving after years of being combined with the languages such as Greek and Latin. Now, English has been reformed in an increasingly simple way, creating new vocabulary by the younger generations. Texting is a new reformed version of English where grammar, punctuation, and spelling do not really matter and where slang is used commonly. For some people, they may see this a simpler way to communicate as there is no thought required, but others may see it otherwise. However, the trend of texting is growing worldwide and soon, it may become the way we communicate. The use of texting in the English language, is however reducing the previous greatness of the English established over the years of English imperialism. Therefore, my belief is that texting is a retrogressive twenty first century concept that is destroying the status quo of formal English due to the fact that with texting, people are becoming

Texting is the communication of evolution, is it destroying our english language? According to Crystal there should be texting he finds it helpful in a way. “2B or not 2B”, Crystal states how texting is not a disaster “texting has added a new dimension to language use... its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster” (Crystal,2008). People are worried that texting isn’t good for our literacy skills in this generation and so forth. We want to think that the youngsters came up with misplacing of abbreviations. This isn’t true Crystal points out in his research “Eric Partridge published his Dictionary of Abbreviations in 1942… English has had abbreviated words ever since it began to be written down” (Crystal,2008). The idea of our english language becoming a disaster isn’t true, abbreviations has been around since history.Texting is something done in an everyday life. Texting has become so common that everyone 's mind has adjusted to the misplacement of abbreviation this doesn’t mean everyone does it when they do their school work or when they 're on there job. Being one of those people use misplacement of abbreviations when texting, hasn’t completely ruined my common sense of reading and writing the proper grammar to be successful or to be labeled well educated. If misplacement of abbreviations when texting means you 're not intelligent then in guessing everyone isn’t smart who texts. We all know this isn’t true, I do agree with Crystal that texting “it is not a