do you think that SMS texting is affecting the English language?
By oldchem1
@oldchem1 (8132)
May 19, 2010 8:49am CST
Love it or hate it I fear that texting is not going to go away, and in fact is becoming more prevalent as time goes on. In my opinion this is not doing a lot to help the good use of the English language.
When you receive a text message, it shows no emotion, bad spelling is accepted, grammar is forgotten and yet somehow that is all acceptable.
What do you think?
Let's have a db8!!!!
5 responses
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
19 May 10
Hiya chem,
Not long back one of my Sons was sending an e-mail to an official public entity and he wanted to send it in text message style. I said you can´t send that spelled like that and he got annoyed what´s wrong with it he asked well all of it I said.
Well I ended up "translating" it all into proper Spanish (grin). Sometimes I think they just don´t stop to think.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
19 May 10
Hiya chem,
Just as bad here as well as over there. I looked at the e-mail that he wanted to send them aghast (grin) well I did understand it but that´s not the point you can´t go writing in text message style to Official Places can you? Or maybe you can. Who knows don´t worry the Spànish language is being obliterated too with text messaging like that.
Just imagine where all the Romance went when they text you a message in their text language (grin). Can you imagine Romeo and Juliet texting each other from the Balcony one and the other well downstairs so to speak. Imagine what they would say to each other if it were nowadays text messaging away well. I am getting to learn some in Spanish so I can imagine what it´s like in English as well. One example is que is replaced in the text by ke or que tal is written ktal? things like that.
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@karen1969 (1779)
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7 Jun 10
Oh I really hate the way text messaging has destroyed the English language! 
It annoys me that someone may send me a text and even though it is apparently in my language, I don't understand it! It even takes me ages to work it out or I show my kids and they just translate it straight away! 
I can understand it if it is an urgent message and you have to be quick and shorten some words, but why choose to do it all the time?? 
It annoys me that someone may send me a text and even though it is apparently in my language, I don't understand it! It even takes me ages to work it out or I show my kids and they just translate it straight away! I can understand it if it is an urgent message and you have to be quick and shorten some words, but why choose to do it all the time?? 
@med889 (5940)
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19 May 10
The way people are using text messages I think the English language will be affecting. I always use pure English to text all my friends, my sisters and my brother or my parent too.
@ajarvaise (453)
• Philippines
19 May 10
They are butchering the English grammar and the younger children can't spell and write correctly. The English teachers are lamenting this. Here in my country, in the Philippines, there are so-called jejemons who are a bunch of people who really has a different and confusing way of writing SMS and it's really hard to understand because there are extra letters in the word that butchers the spelling of a certain word. You can look for the topic here in mylot to shed more light into what are jejemons...
@Rebeccarogers2010 (269)
• United States
19 May 10
I believe it will affect the language greatly, even the speech as well as written
