Is Texting Killing Student’s Ability to Write? Picture reading your former texts and looking at the misspelled words, incorrect grammar and the absence of punctuation. You might not have even bothered to spell some common phrases and just use abbreviations, for example “btw” instead of spelling out “by the way”. After noticing these mistakes some people may think that texting is corrupting our writing and making people unable to write correctly. However, texting is not killing writing or making it so students could not write accurately. In the Ted Talk video, “Texting is Killing Language. JK!!!” By John McWhorter, John says “if you can speak like writing, then logically it follows that you might want to also sometimes write like you speak.”.
