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Aspects of Language for She’s Your Basic L.O.L. in N.A.D. The essay She’s Your Basic L.O.L. in N.A.D. takes an unfamiliar language to most, such as abbreviations that doctors and medical students use and explain what they mean to common people. A prime example used in this essay is L.O.L. in N.A.D. (Little Old Lady in No Apparent Distress) while Klass is told that Mrs. Tolstoy is unlikely to have had a heart attack. Most common people would not know what a basic L.O.L. in N.A.D. is but Klass…

school; one girl refused to capitalize an ‘I’ because “she thought it was funny” (Martin 2). Most teens use a thing called cyber slang. Cyber slang is a term used for when someone makes a word shorter or uses abbreviations to convey thoughts on any electronic devices. Children use abbreviations such as LOL or BFF to text quicker throughout the day so they can send more texts and text more people. Since teens get so used to texting it can affect their testing scores so that when they have to…

(Cullington 367). Speaking for myself, I believe that texting does have an ill correlation with writing because it allows students to be lazier and uses informal language. I am not saying that texting is a bad thing, but there should be a time when abbreviations or informal language needs to stay in the texting realm due to professionalism. As one Minnesota high school student said, “[T]here is a time and a place for everything and formal writing is not the place for communicating the way one…

main target of the whole debate is about the writing ability of students, he creates a survey for students and professors of 7 different high schools and colleges. The result that he ultimately comes up with is that students don’t use as much abbreviations as people claims them to be, and they…

of punctuation, students are neglecting it in their formal writing.”(Bullock, 2013) Which in my opinion leads back to education, not texting. Texting is a tool that we have that creates quick communication without emotion. Many people will use abbreviations when doing rough drafts or having to record information and to shorten words so we can fit more information. This essay evokes me because it relates to my generation and…

write?” Crystal agrees and supports Barons idea that abbreviations and shortcuts are not a negative thing and…

communicating. I have also gained the awareness of how others respond to features of my idiolect and what to anticipate of them if I alter it. One aspect that stands out to be the utmost dominant in the means of varying my idiolect is social networking. Abbreviations like “LOL” and “ROFL” appear to be making their way into everyday teenager…

LIN 3010 Word Formation Processes - Compounding o Obamacare: 2013 noun: term for the Affordable Care Act that does not have the same meaning as when the terms are broken. o Humblebrag: 2011 verb: when the two words are combined, the term’s meaning changes to an expression of false humility, especially be celebrities on Twitter. o Lumbersexual: 2014 noun: when the morphemes are stick together, the term means a fashionable rugged man who adopts the stereotypical dress and facial hair of a…

authors’ tone created uncertainty, which reduces confidence in the validity of the article. Another inconsistency dealt with abbreviations throughout the article. For example, without referring to it once, Baddeley uses “STM” and “SR”. Authors should write the complete term the first time they refer to it, place the abbreviation in parentheses, and then refer to the abbreviation throughout the remainder of the article. Baddeley followed the rules on several occasions, but not consistently…

Language is a civilized and friendly way of being able to communicate. Throughout history, this, the language has undergone many transformations in their graphics and sound expressions, due to the direct influence of the evolution of human beings and satisfaction of their needs. In these modern times, we have to communicate a lot of resources, and one of them is what is called "social media through the internet". This feature allows to communicate in a simple, fast, agile, and allows its…