Many believe that texting is decreasing teens spelling and grammatical skills and because of extreme use of shorthand or simplified spellings, Texting is ruining the language and writing system. Well first of all, spelling and grammatical errors have always existed and does not only belong to this period of time.Secondly, texting is not even writing! it is actually a written speech, John McWhorter says in ‘Txtng Is Killing Language. JK!!!’ . He also mentions that texting language is actually changing and as a matter of fact, is rather improving our writing, due to including emotions in a grammatical format such as LOL or Slash. Furthermore, texting language develops our cognitive skills, a very important literacy tool, and is similar to being bilingual. So texting can even be addressed as something miraculous to our
Many believe that texting is decreasing teens spelling and grammatical skills and because of extreme use of shorthand or simplified spellings, Texting is ruining the language and writing system. Well first of all, spelling and grammatical errors have always existed and does not only belong to this period of time.Secondly, texting is not even writing! it is actually a written speech, John McWhorter says in ‘Txtng Is Killing Language. JK!!!’ . He also mentions that texting language is actually changing and as a matter of fact, is rather improving our writing, due to including emotions in a grammatical format such as LOL or Slash. Furthermore, texting language develops our cognitive skills, a very important literacy tool, and is similar to being bilingual. So texting can even be addressed as something miraculous to our