Essay On Texting Destroy The English Language

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As you walk around just take the second to notice that almost everyone you passed is quickly twiddling their thumbs across their phone screen. Ding. Someone’s iPhone just received a new text, two-seconds later, Swoosh. Did you figure out what the title New Age English Language is yet? Yes, you are correct, texting. Since the first text message was sent on December 3, 1992, our English language has been growing and evolving and it is not stopping yet. Critics will claim that texting is destroying our English language as a whole. These critics do not understand that texting has formed from our modern day english. When thinking of texting, many fail to see that texting has become one of the newest form of the english language. In order to have …show more content…

“texting… used to communicate ideas in English accurately and with ease and efficiency through a specific medium and for almost exclusive audience.” Texting had become a way to expressive in the fastest way. A way to deliver important information to an audience without much problem. The use of text messaging becomes beneficial in an educational setting because if there was a group message between a class and it professor. This group chat will set up a communication between the two in a much more efficient way. Also when using text messaging, the language used can be more simple terms to get the message across easier. Text messaging can be as simple as “Wed. class moved M2-23” This would tell the recipient that the class on Wednesday will be moved and held in a different room, room M2-23. It was simply understood by the text in quotes that the class was moving. In addition, that group chat could even be a small summary of the lesson that day and key points to …show more content…

They must be able to recognize speech and sentence patterns….” One of the most important things to remember about texting is understanding that texting is built off our modern day english. Like Spires writes, if you do not have a good basics and knowledge in academic english then you will not be able to text or be a recipient of a text. The fact is that in texts, most of the time, spelling is ignored and sometimes not everything is written out, the recipient has to be able to read the text with a good knowledge of speech patterns along with sentence patterns. When you are texting someone, it in a way teaches you how to read any type of writing. This benefit of texting will really pretend well to any English course you do take. The fact that you can look at simple texts and try and depict the main idea of the text from what is giving. Your professor can incorporate how to identity different types of patterns in ones grammar and sentence structure. On top of that, you can work on spelling and grammar and punctation by editing the texts and putting them into academic

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