Do you think text messaging.....?!
Question: DO you think is is going to contribute to the further disintegration of literacy in America?
I have seen it here. People's Spelling and grammatical skills are often poor, but this is making it even worse.
People ask questions using text messaging.
Will it get to the point where people want to send business communication in this manner? What about job applications?
Will students want to compose essays and narrative stories using text?
Can you see authors using text to write books?
Answers: DO you think is is going to contribute to the further disintegration of literacy in America?
I have seen it here. People's Spelling and grammatical skills are often poor, but this is making it even worse.
People ask questions using text messaging.
Will it get to the point where people want to send business communication in this manner? What about job applications?
Will students want to compose essays and narrative stories using text?
Can you see authors using text to write books?
I think you make a good point. America does not set the standard when it comes to education these days; in fact, the only thing that America is setting the standard for these days is popular culture--and it is a very dumb culture. Text messaging has become another addition to that culture and it is not an encouraging sign as far as regards educational benefit.
The entire initial reason for the advanced media of our age, the internet, etc., was initially to share information of an educational nature. The original vision for the internet was as a web connecting colleges, to allow sharing of reference material. It was expanded to the general public, and there can be no denying the educational resource that it has become.
Along with this, however, has come the transformation of the internet into an entertainment resource. This general effect has coloured the way this wonderful tool is viewed, and used. When the internet becomes a replacement for reading a book, there is a diminishment in the individual initiative to educate oneself. More often than not, students use the internet as an easy-access "cliff's notes", rather than researching in depth.
This same point is the danger I see in text messaging. It is not that there is inherently anything wrong with it. It is simply that the easier it is to qualify the standards of education, the easier it is to accept one's laziness in these matters. An individual's initiative to improve oneself, to educate oneself, and the level of tolerance for the time investment required to do these things well, is reduced, to the overall detriment of the individual's education.
As this has become popular culture, the general effect on popular culture is a decline in the same initiative. When shortcuts take the place of hard work, when cut-and-paste answers take the place of real research, when text messaging takes the place of grammar(and when then individual is too ignorant to know the difference), the standard of excellence is reduced.
An excellent and interesting question, by the way.
No, I don't think so, because if the people write this way in real life, they would be considered unworthy of employment.
hmmm maybe they would have 2 be doing a lot of texting lol........me on the other no texting with my cell :-(
I don't like it at all I'd so much rather call a person, texting is a waste of time and money
People do need to improve their grammar skills. If they get off the computer at least for five minutes, then perhaps they could learn a thing or two. I hope I helped! Have a great morning!
The Fat Thanksgiving Turkey
meh. for some people it is. but i only use bad grammar when im too lazy to spell it or think about it.
no. I don't think it will. Businsess situations are run by adults, and they won't tolerate text speech. They will only hire the ones who don't use it. Then, the ones who don't use it will be in charge, and so forth.
I don't think books will be written in that way. There might be one or two, but not best sellers. Text speech is good for taking notes in class, though. It's much faster to write.
Yes. Things are going wrong. Books might say "OMG!" instead of "Oh my God!"
I wouldn't be surprised. I know in elementary school (only a few years ago) people would use "u" and "r" in their work.
If it came to that I imagine texting would be very expensive. But I do see your point. Some texts looks like a first grader was trying to send a message.
wow, these are quite interesting questions u have here. I agree to where texting will make literacy in America poorer.
People think that texting is fast and convienient whereas email or phone calls are boring and long, buh I don't think that authors will use text to write books or students composing essays using text.
TV was the beginning of the end. Computers have only exacerbated the problem. No kid should touch a computer until seventh grade, by which time he/she should have done a research paper using note cards and a manual typewriter. Each child should completely master all arithmetic functions before learning what a calculator is. No piece of class assigned writing should be accepted until it has been edited to perfection and produced perfectly on a typewriter in triplicate, carefully erasing and correcting manually all typos and small errors. Basically in the first six grades all a teacher needs is a blackboard and chalk. The teachers should be required to buy their own chalk.
yes some peoples spelling and grammar makes it hard to know what they are asking,as for writing essays and sending job applicants i do not think it will go this far,and i do not think that authors would write books in this way
-jake
I can not stand texting language!!! It only takes a few seconds to type a word on out. I think It is stupid and people are getting lazy. It doesn't make sense to me. Sentence has more meaning if it written on out.
No, I think you're making too much out of it. It will pretty much stay the same. Whether or not someone chooses to pay attention during english lessons won't have anything to do with what they do when they grow up & learn to text. Think about it, we learn the alphabet, phonics & spelling at a very young age, b4 wE lern 2 txt, lol. U hav 2 no words b4 u can lern 2 alter dem 4 txting!!!!!!!! I think the people freaking out about "text speak" are the adults who don't understand it. I'm kinda in the middle (I'm 30).
p.s. Stop blaming texting for goodness sake! Look at Mandy above me for example (Sorry Mandy) But look at her last sentence:
"Sentence has more meaning if it written on out."
I do believe it should be:
"A sentence has more meaning if it is written out."
She's dissing texting & she can't even get her sentence right.
I understand using shorthand for phone texts--but it sounds just plain uneducated in a setting such as this. I'll be honest with you, however: I've never seen the logic of the text message to begin with. You type it on a phone. Which means that you have a phone in your hand. Here's an idea: You *could* call that person!
I've seen idiots trying to text and drive at the same time. And I thought they were dangerous when they were simply trying to talk on that thing while they drove!
Even here, on the Internet... I resist the tend of "lol." I don't bow to the god of "brb." I couldn't care less if someone's "ROFL." And yes, I'm seeing that sort of speak at work, myself, when people leave little notes for one another. You have to track down the note's author to figure out what it says--thus defeating the point of a note in the first place.
It's laziness. Cut and dried. Simply put.
wut do u mean? i thnk it will b gr8
Yes, I think it is already having a detrimental effect and will only get worse, unfortunately. Spelling skills are definitely on the decline.
When I was working as a student teacher, getting my teaching cert, the English teacher told me internet language was having a terrible effect on her students' literacy.
Instead of book reports, she was allowing the students to produce "book posters" because they weren't able to put together a report. This was in 8th grade.