Texting By David Crystal: Article Analysis

As the years go by, communication through words in person is slowly becoming worse and worse. Going through several different phases through life, communication as a whole is being ruined by the internet. Education is being affected day by day as the internet and mobile phones are blocking students from expanding their intelligence (Crystal, 2008). Although David Crystal was not against texting, he discussed several prophecies in the beginning of the reading, including: children’s ability to spell, use proper grammar, transfer these habits into their schoolwork leading to horrible outcomes in exams, and several more. In his reading, he was capable of proving every prophecy wrong. The internet could be known as “brain-washing” for a child since they should be out being active with friends, but it also has benefits to help adults communicate more smoothly through their daily life.
Several young teenagers went through a phase at some point in their life when they thought spelling “crazy” on social media would be cool. For instance, instead of typing, “You should have came to …show more content…
Teachers state that texting causes students to develop a bad habit of not knowing how to spell. However, David Crystal made a good point that people think children can’t spell since they leave certain letters out in words while texting to be “cool,” but in order for children to leave letters out in a word, they must know that it is there in the first place in order to “leave it out.” Texting is a great source of communication to quickly get a hold of someone to exchange important details, nonetheless, becoming addicted to texting, above 5 hours a day, could be a huge problem that could interfere with one’s life. As many say, “time is money,” and all that time spent on a phone could have been used on getting an important task done, including business or school