An example of why I said texting is killing the english languange

[DMac]

It ain't just english that's taking a beating ;)

edit to add, there are even grammatical errors in the AP article! :o
Wired youth forget how to write in China and Japan (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jz3FEk2KJw3NEUyDhbMlTQO0IlOw)

snips


Young Japanese people also report the problem, which is caused by the constant use of computers and mobile phones with alphabet-based input systems.


A poll commissioned by the China Youth Daily in April found that 83 percent of the 2,072 respondents admitted having problems writing characters.


As a result, Li says that she has become almost dependent on her phone.

"When I can?t remember, I will take out my cellphone and find it (the character) and then copy it down," she says.

Zeng Ming, 22, from the southern Guangdong province, says: "I think it's a young people's problem, or at least a computer users' problem."


The explosion of internet and phone technology has itself led to the creation of new words and forms of writing. In 2008 Chinese people were sending 175 billion text messages each quarter, according to the Xinhua state news agency.

Still, both Li Hanwei and Zeng Ming have become so concerned about character amnesia that they keep handwritten diaries partly to ensure they don't forget how to write.

[BabushkaLady]

I agree 100% Dmac!

from the article:

"Given the social and financial pressures that exist for most people in China... (and) given that nearly everyone has a cellphone, it really isn?t a problem at all."

Yet!! Wait for a big CME to set those satellites a blinking! I guess they'll have to talk to each other and use real words on real paper! It's certainly is a global degeneration.

[JDRock]

lol ,i thnk z kul 2 txt instd f .......REALLY WRITING! :sarc:

[zap]

Hell they don't even speak English here in Ca. much less text it. :'(

[1970 silver art]

It is rare that I do any texting because I am not familiar with all of the different lingo that is used when texting. I guess I will never get the hang of texting because I am used to writing in complete sentences. It does not matter to me one way or the other because I feel that I am much better at speaking than I am at writing.

In my opinion, texting is simply "rewriting" the way that the English language is used in everyday communication in an adverse way.

[Fortyone]

In "1984" this was described as "Newspeak" a condensed language that removed most emotion and adjectives. It was intended to devolve society where it was more controllable and harder to plan. This IS part of the plan. In my family's homeland,Under Communist Tito,this was experimented with certain Turkic minority subjects where they were only exposed to Slavic nouns and verbs, limiting their interaction with Serbians and Croats.The second phase would have allowed ONLY this Slavic pig latin to be spoken to each other as well. I have some documents I found online describing these experiments ,I will dig them up and post them.

[Ponce]

Because I don't mix with people and here I don't even have a phone tower I have never seen texting, but it must be like when I was in the army as a radio operator and withing our group we used to talk using the Q and Z signals........people would look at us as if we were crazy hhahahahahah INT ZBK 1?

[illumin19]

This articul be lyin'!

[Fortyone]

This articul be lyin'!



wrong language Illum, thats ebonics! ;D

[willie pete]

Not all us text in abreviations like that, in fact with most hand-held personal communication devices now days, the automatic dictionary on those devices selects words and phrases for you rather easily

[illumin19]

This articul be lyin'!



wrong language Illum, thats ebonics! ;D


Cut me some slack jack!

[k-os]

It is rare that I do any texting because I am not familiar with all of the different lingo that is used when texting. I guess I will never get the hang of texting because I am used to writing in complete sentences. It does not matter to me one way or the other because I feel that I am much better at speaking than I am at writing.

In my opinion, texting is simply "rewriting" the way that the English language is used in everyday communication in an adverse way.



My friends and I all text in complete sentences. My sister, on the other hand, even writes emails in the txt shorthand, and it drives me crazy. (Come on, with email you have a keyboard and unlimited characters. There's no excuse for that garbage.) But I digress. One friend shortens a couple of words "tomo" for tomorrow, and "prolly" for probably. I text in complete sentences out of principle, because I want the English language to survive. I just found out that one of my friends does it for the same reason.

[1970 silver art]

It is rare that I do any texting because I am not familiar with all of the different lingo that is used when texting. I guess I will never get the hang of texting because I am used to writing in complete sentences. It does not matter to me one way or the other because I feel that I am much better at speaking than I am at writing.

In my opinion, texting is simply "rewriting" the way that the English language is used in everyday communication in an adverse way.



My friends and I all text in complete sentences. My sister, on the other hand, even writes emails in the txt shorthand, and it drives me crazy. (Come on, with email you have a keyboard and unlimited characters. There's no excuse for that garbage.) But I digress. One friend shortens a couple of words "tomo" for tomorrow, and "prolly" for probably. I text in complete sentences out of principle, because I want the English language to survive. I just found out that one of my friends does it for the same reason.


I cannot read and write in text shorthand. That would drive me crazy too because I cannot understand text shorthand. I prefer to write in complete sentences because that was what I was taught in school and I am too old and too set in my ways to change now. ;D I think that the only short hand that I use is BTW, FWIW, WAG, and IMO when I am posting here. That is the extent of my text shorthand. The rest of my writing is complete sentences and complete words.

Since I have a mini QWERTY keyboard on my smartphone (Palm Pixi), it is much easier for me to text in complete sentences and it does not take forever to type out a sentence. For the most part, the only time that I do any texting is when I am responding to someone who is texting me but I usually do not get many text messages since I do not have many friends that text on a regular basis.

[Heimdhal]

I was in HS just before texting was REALLy starting to take off. This was 00-04 (yep, im class of 04) and people still passed notes at this time as not EVERYONE had a cell phone like today, or texted everyone like today (I didnt get my first cell phone till i was 18 and payed for it myself, the way it should be).

Anyways, I remember reading a few of these notes that would cross my desk on their way to other people. If yall think that the degredation of the written word began with texting......you're looking at the wrong cultrual shift. The kids would write as they spoke, I suppose its only natural. We even do it here, we just, for the most part, speak well. Some of these notes were darn near unreadable"

"Fo sho, hun, I no dat she is durty an I wunt tuch her wit a 10 foot poe"

I kid you not you, that was near word for word, letter for letters a snippet from one that still resonates in my mind to this day. Maybe its because I imagine a 10 foot tall 17th cenutry gothic poet being poked like a pool cue into a skanky girl.

At any rate, thats my contribution to this thread........ ;)

[Joe King]

Waht aoubt tpynig lkie tihs?

;D

[Shorty Harris]

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[Joe King]

˙uoısuəɯıp əʇɐuɹəʇlɐ uɐ oʇuı ɹəʌo pəssoɹɔ əʌı ʇɐɥʇ puıɟ ı ʍou puɐ sɹəqɯoq ƃuıuuɐɔs əɥʇ ɥʇıʍ pəɹədɯɐʇ əʌı ¡ʍoʍ˙˙˙¿¿sıɥʇ ʇnoqɐ ʍoɥ




If it's a contest, you win hands down. http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/9374/tenerifeforumsurrenders.gif<--- me admitting defeat in the "funny" typing contest.


BTW, your post reminds me of Jetgraphics.