ARTICLE CRITIQUE

Article Critique

Article Critique

Textism born because of limited space and the difficulty of writing words on numeric phone keypad, which means using the same letters and symbols to replace the vowels, consonants and words. "Brevity" is the name of the game. And for this reason, some teachers, parents, and linguists have accused textism for two ills: corruption of language and poor spelling among young people.

As a new kind of language, text messaging was condemned as "textese", "jargon", "digital virus". According to John Sutherland of University College London, wrote in the article in 2002, it is "bleak, bald, sad decline. ...