From the early 2000’s to present time, texting started to become popular all around the world. We are constantly on our electronics chatting with friends, family, or loved ones, but the most used tool that we use is texting. As these years have passed by we are getting lazier and lazier when we text. We’ve come to the point where we just a single letter like “u” to portray the word “you”. While we continue to text like this, we need to stop and think and ask ourselves, is texting killing writing? In the TED presentation, by John McWhorter, “Txting is killing language. JK!!” he explains that we write like speak, but we usually do not speak using abbreviations and emojis. We generally just show things like this using hand motions or gestures with body language.
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For example he using the word “LOL” which is supposed to mean “laugh out loud”, but now people are starting to use it in a different context. He states, “You’ll notice that LOL does not mean laughing out loud anymore. It’s evolved into something much subtler.” Nowadays, people have decided to use this as a word that they put in every sentence. They've changed the entire meaning of the term laughing out loud, and it does not have a meaning anymore. In an article, by getinfrontofcommunication they explain four reasons why texting is killing the English language. They state, “Texting pulls our focus away from the people and tasks we are experiencing at the moment.” Texting is killing the way we are communicating in real life and we are way too focused in texting instead of speaking with people and being focused on different priorities. We need to learn to avoid being lazy and changing words that should not be
For example he using the word “LOL” which is supposed to mean “laugh out loud”, but now people are starting to use it in a different context. He states, “You’ll notice that LOL does not mean laughing out loud anymore. It’s evolved into something much subtler.” Nowadays, people have decided to use this as a word that they put in every sentence. They've changed the entire meaning of the term laughing out loud, and it does not have a meaning anymore. In an article, by getinfrontofcommunication they explain four reasons why texting is killing the English language. They state, “Texting pulls our focus away from the people and tasks we are experiencing at the moment.” Texting is killing the way we are communicating in real life and we are way too focused in texting instead of speaking with people and being focused on different priorities. We need to learn to avoid being lazy and changing words that should not be