The cranky old people can stop now with their "Technology is ruining the English language, what with it's smiley faces and stupid abbreviations, ggwmm* . . ."
A British study has revealed the reverse. Kids who text do better with spelling.
Back when only a handful of my students used email or chat programs, I noticed that those who did were more facile writers. Now that everyone emails and texts, and many blog, tweet and update FB statuses, it's fair to say that we are becoming, again, people who write. This should be celebrated without qualification.
We do write differently than we did in the 19th Century when we were sending long letters over land and sea, but you'd expect that, wouldn't you?
* ggwmm = grumble grumble where's my Metamucil
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Nice thoughts, I especially like ggwmm.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. Thanks for sharing this. I like ggwmm, too.
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