Netspeak Is Turning Students Lazy in Learning English Language
By Shavkat
@Shavkat (137192)
Philippines
April 1, 2017 12:05pm CST
“Are you a netspeaker?” I am sure most of us use netspeak when chatting with our friends with the use of mobile phone. It evolves into the usage of emoticons, acronyms or making your own shortcuts in texts. I also sometimes can’t understand when some friends send me messages on my mobile phone.
However, the word “netspeak” seems not helping young students, especially in spellings. They tend to use it for a couple of times and modern gadgets taught them how to be lazy in learning the English language. I think we need to encourage these students to refrain from netspeaking through texting messages in mobile phones and other modern gadgets.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
2 Apr 17
Before, our daughter when she texts us , theyare so shortcut. I told her to make it clearer for me to understand. From then on, she did.
me, when I text usually I use the full words. But for those pronouns and the like , I only use some letters. But still , i write the long way. he he he I guess I am old that's why.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
1 Apr 17
And auto correct along with other spelling correcter prompts. Many won't bother to check and see why they spelled it wrong,
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@Shavkat (137192)
• Philippines
2 Apr 17
@Jeanniemaries I agree. They will send it without looking at it. That's being lazy sometimes.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
2 Apr 17
@Shavkat Oh yes, it's even worse when auto correct is wrong and they don't notice.
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@AmbiePam (85321)
• United States
1 Apr 17
My late mother was a professor. She would get exasperated with a lot of the students because they would actually write papers with text speech. Instead of you, they would put "U", or instead of writing out you're, they'd put "UR". It's a terrible habit.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
2 Apr 17
that is why i complete the characters of the words when i send a text message. i don't use the jejeje-jargon as well. 
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@Shavkat (137192)
• Philippines
18 Apr 18
@ridingbet A member was responding to my previous discussions. Then, I browse if there are some messages that I haven't responded.
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@diosabella (4789)
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2 Apr 17
My mom is complaining the same. She said mobile phones are making kids dumb and dumber every day.
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@diosabella (4789)
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2 Apr 17
@Shavkat They can't even spell their names right. 
sometimes auto correct is not helping either. I think its making me dumb too. 
sometimes auto correct is not helping either. I think its making me dumb too. 
@much2say (53946)
• Los Angeles, California
1 Apr 17
I try not to do that at all . . . except when I am in a big hurry (which is rare). Oh yes, I have seen a lot of those shortcut spellings and I hate them . . . I especially hate the word "prolly" and I've seen kids writings where they think that's an actual word!!
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@allknowing (130067)
• India
2 Apr 17
We see that here as well.
Some of us who have had a good grounding are good at producing flawless English
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@epiffanie (11326)
• Australia
2 Apr 17
Yes indeed .. I don't like those acronyms .. they are not helping young people with their proper spellings ..
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@Shavkat (137192)
• Philippines
5 Apr 17
@epiffanie You said it right. I had seen some people who are so fluent in English but they can write it.
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@epiffanie (11326)
• Australia
5 Apr 17
@Shavkat you'll be surprised to know that there are many people who speak English only and yet can't spell properly ..
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
2 Apr 17
Hoping as they get a bit older they will overcome the need to use "netspeak" on a regular basis. We can get a bit lazy about this.
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