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The language and terms used by people is now known as Textspeak. It is a form of language or a sort of expression used by teenagers to communicate swiftly with their friends. Mostly, it is grammatically incorrect and filled with abbreviations. C. Miles (2012), a contributor for the Deseret News and student of English Education at Brigham Young University in Idaho explains that textspeak is the new Newspeak that Orwell conveyed in his novel 1984. Miles proves this to be true by researching…

Everyone is apart of at least one discourse community throughout their life. I am apart of many discourse communities. The biggest discourse community I am in is majoring in teaching. Intervention specialist is a great discourse community to be involved in. The discourse communities I am in now all have a common goal in mind. Examining writing through the lens of my discourse communities completely changes the way I see things. My discourse community as a special education teacher has shaped the…

Task 1, 3 pages, five references You are working as an advanced nurse at a community health clinic. You make an error when prescribing a drug to a patient. You do not think the patient would know that you made the error and it certainly was no intentional. Explain the ethical and legal implications of disclosure and non-disclosure. Be sure to reference laws specific to your state MARYLAND USA Disclosure is notably the safer course of action a medical nurse can take in a situation of having made…

Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett, the authors write about a conversation occurring between tortoise and Achilles in which they discuss about a book containing all of the neurons and pathways symbolized by abbreviations and words. These fully functional neurons written as abbreviations represent Einstein’s brain, and thus, the book is Einstein’s brain. During the conversation, Achilles struggles to understand the concept. Thus, Tortoise uses an analogy of a record player to describe…

components of a workout; the more you practice, the better you’ll become. This comparison became my motto during a time I had to learn a new language. Although it wasn’t just any language like English or Spanish, this language involved codes, signs, abbreviations, and terms. I would have to learn this new language through the help of reading and writing in a mere three months. Having a hate-hate relationship with reading and writing made this task seem impossible for me to achieve. Little did…

People have noticed that the use of numbers for letters is dying. It’s very true for the rise of unlimited texting and no typing limit most people can now use the full words whenever the are texting, but abbreviation is still a very big thing. With using text slang becoming popular and now it’s used by parents and children, teen now want very little to do with it for it’s “uncool” and more times then not words like “lol” are used more ironically nowadays. At…

Do smartphones cause people to act differently when they experience face to face me interaction? Are they helpful to our society, or detrimental? The smartphone is innovating our technology and changing our lives forever. For example, learning is much more accessible because of this handheld technology. The Internet of Things, the idea of connecting household appliances with the internet and cellphones, is founded on the idea of carrying a connected device constantly; furthermore, connectivity…

In order to do this, she questioned seven of her students asking a series of questions: how long they had been texting, how often they texted, what type of abbreviations they used most and how often they used them, and whether they noticed themselves using any type of textspeak in their formal writing. In order to get another viewpoint, she interviewed two high school teachers as well, but she asked them slightly…

As time passes, societies and language evolve with the emergence of subcultural identities, new terminology, and inventive ways of utilizing the language. Making it easier for societies to adapt to the new ways of using their language. As subcultures become directed towards Japanese youth, the language will continue to change it’s representation in society through a cultural shift and usage of honorific, neologisms, emoticons, and coded words. While polite and honorific language hasn’t changed…

experiences. These experiences are affecting the conflicts he has with his depression, and it is mainly from one mental illness. Certain symptoms from Holden Caulfield imply that he is diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. PTSD, the abbreviation for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, is an anxiety disorder that comes from a traumatic event. The victim who witnessed the event, is often followed with symptoms of depression. Depending on how much the event impacted the person, will…