David Crystal, the author of “Txtng: The Gr8 Db8,” told me in an e-mail message that “there’s nothing in texting to suggest spelling reform,” noting that texting relies heavily on abbreviations, which he sees as creative stylings, not systematic improvements.
Response
I agree with this
nothing says that text messaging always relies on heavy abbreviations. In my
personal experience few if any of my friends use text messaging lingo when
talking to me threw text messaging. We hardly even abbreviate and we do it is
usually a word commonly abbreviated. However I don’t agree with his opinion that
text lingo is creative styling, I see it as more of laziness or to save space
and not have to make the message more than one page long; but he is correct in
my opinion it is defiantly not systematic improvements because it is not proper
English and it is not accepted in things like résumés, essays or any legal
documentation.
I believe that this video shows that even though their are only a few changes out of a lot of words that it does make a difference and is effecting students school work if they are in the habit of using "online lingo" daily.
I got this information from the Nytimes.
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