TEXT-MESSAGE IS RUINING OUR LANGUAGE

Text-Message Is Ruining Our Language

Text-Message Is Ruining Our Language

Introduction

As a teen myself, I find it the most overused and rather unorthadox, annoying, pathetic attempt at writing. I myself, used to use text message lingo. Eventually I started reading my posts in online forums and my sent messages on Myspace, my comments on Xanga, Tagged, GaiaOnline, etc. and I ralized just how annoying it truly is. All those times I was called pathetic for not spelling a word properly and using shorthand in every day writing, I used to find it rude of them, but now I have to agree with them. It is rather annoying. Text message lingo in today's teens is getting to the point of unhealthy obsessions also. I've noticed from letters my friend's have sent me that they actually WRITE, say... "lol" for example. When you write something such as LOL, BRB, LMAO, etc in written letters or notes, you seriously may have an unhealthy obsession with short hand.

Eventually it leads to using it in essays and school papers. I've seen it happen, and they've failed the project because of it at times. Text message ingo is more common in teenagers than anyone from what I've witnessed. This paper considers whether written language used on the text-message is influencing offline writing, and perhaps even speech. The discussion unfolds in three stages. T begin with my take on the current state of offline writing — the kind that appears, for instance, in newspapers, essays, or formal advertisements. Here, T'll argue, is where we should look for our modern-day language culprit — if indeed one exists. The second stage addresses the normative question: Is electronically-mediated communication a linguistic free-for-all, or are there shared rules that users either follow or violate? Lastly, I'll suggest several ways in which it seems the text-message is actually shaping language(Crystal, 2003).

Discussion

Text message lingo is common in today's teenagers more than anyone else. As a teen myself, I find it the most overused and rather unorthadox, annoying, pathetic attempt at writing. I myself, used to use text message lingo. Eventually I started reading my posts in online forums and my sent messages on Myspace, my comments on Xanga, Tagged, GaiaOnline, etc. and I ralized just how annoying it truly is. All those times I was called pathetic for not spelling a word properly and using shorthand in every day writing, I used to find it rude of them, but now I have to agree with them. It is rather annoying. Text message lingo in today's teens is getting to the point of unhealthy obsessions also. I've noticed from letters my friend's have sent me that they actually WRITE, say... "lol" for example. When you write something such as LOL, BRB, LMAO, etc in written letters or notes, you seriously may have an unhealthy obsession with short hand. Eventually it leads to using it in essays and school papers. I've seen it happen, and they've failed the project because ...