Response to "Text Speak"

can I pleaz jus talk how I wanna?

Goodness, all of these papers are killing me. I’m a smart girl, I learned my ABC’s. So why is it that it is so hard for me to write a paper with out saying “lol?” Unfortunately, over the years I have learned how to damage my writing ability, and how to completely ruin my vocabulary. Thanks Dad for getting me unlimited texting! Now I can text my friends all day in sloppy English, forget all the grammatical rules I learned and ruin my English papers. We read about text speak in this English 111 class, and it was definitely something that hit home. My brother is 12 years old, and spends a lot of his time typing up things on “youtube” or “myspace” but he can’t spell write wright anytime he rights! America is going to run into a huge problem with this next generation. We all think we are the best, our parents love to baby us, and we cannot spell worth crap. Not to mention our horrible education system that just isn’t getting the job done. In high schools around the country children are graduating with out even learning to read, let me rephrase that, young adults are growing up with out ever learning to read. This is a big problem and what’s a bigger problem is the fact that my generation is getting away with their laziness because we have things like Microsoft Word, or text speak to cover up our mistakes. Do you think that teen’s text short hand because they can’t type fast enough? Or do you think it’s because it is too hard for them to spell things the right way? Well I can text pretty dang fast, and I think the bigger issue is kids don’t know their grammar and spelling well enough to write things the correct way. Hope I spelled all of this WRITE.


Interesting Links: http://www.lingo2word.com/index.php http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/23/tech/cnettechnews/main4471183.shtml


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