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Say Goodbye to the King’s English by Kirk Richardson (Edison State College)
In the need-to-know world of technology that we now live in, there seems to be a pattern of increasing illiteracy. To focus on a major contributor, “text-talk” has seemed to replace actual, intelligible communication. Grammar is cast aside in order to keep messages succinct. Periods are replaced with LOL or LMFAO in order to convey a type of ambiguous pseudo-emotion. Why talk when you can just as easily send a string of incoherent fragments of speech in a perfunctory fashion? In a generation, we armed ourselves with the necessary weapons to infect the English language with a perniciously caustic type of stupidity. Steadily, this insidious new form of “communication” is beginning to spread beyond “texting.” Its growth needs to be arrested before it manifests in more official papers, reports etc. So, if you want to break away from the herd, eliminate “LOL,” and comparable text-type, from your lexicon. Don’t allow yourself to be assimilated among the masses by assailing the English language.
15. February 2010 at 23:38
Marietta Intro to Soc(FGCU):
I agree that texting has changed our means of communication. More people these days send text than calls, and it has become acceptable not to talk to people with voice. Texting has also created a new language, yet in doing so has weakened grammatical knowledge of the general public. It has been shown that more students are abbreviating words and using texting language in place of literacy on exams and essays. Teachers are even saying that they have noticed a change in punctuation and spelling on student papers, which can very easily be an outcome on texting. However, with new technology new keyboards have been created. Most phones these days contain a full key board, with keys as functional as computers. This may improve the grammatical state of student and adults that gave way to the texting language.