The article “Talking With Your Fingers” by John McWhorter tells us many things, but over all it tells us that texting and emailing in abbreviations such as “LOL” or “c u later” isn’t such a horrible thing. In the first section, the authors point is that writing nowadays are showing signs of a new sophistication in our society, and that most writing now, and in the past, is straight to the point. McWhorter continues explaining that people went from writing in blocks to writing more complex. When our writing today is compared to the time of World War 1 you see that it is so much different, and that texting is not writing but simply a written conversation or a fingered speech. Our society now has two kinds of writing, one that takes more work and energy, and another that is more natural like speaking.
