“Twtr?
It's majorly bad! Leading headteacher condemns 'text speak' for eroding
schoolchildren's language skills”
The amount of colloquialism and abbreviations used
by younger generations on both school papers and phone texts has gone out of
control!. There is an obvious correlation between incorrect grammar and
punctuation, and the use of one’s phone as a form of communication. The age
groups which are using these methods of communicating with one another thinking
they are ‘cool’ are damaging the name of Standard English. English should be
treated with high importance as it is one of, if not, the most important skill
one will have as a person, as Mrs. Jordan wrote “making the difference between
landing a job and having a misspelled application filed in the bin.”.
The younger
minds are being negatively influenced with social media and their ever developing
use of slang and abbreviations as an eroded way of communicating, which not
only limits their exposure to new vocabulary and dialect but also gear them up
for failure in academic areas for school. The evidence and facts is not just prove of broken English which multilinguals would sometimes encounter, but as a form
of writing which would then come from someone who is uneducated. It is definitely
recommended that students, who are in the age where there is still possibility of
exponential growth and learning to be done in the English language, should
limit their exposure to such applications and rather continuing to read books.
Not only this but the application of text speak can be prevented and controlled
by also just avoiding the use of abbreviations when texting someone and
starting to add more of a formal tone in their writing to therefore avoid the
complete misuse of the language. Is this wrongly utilized vocabulary just a by-product
of advancements in technology and communication?
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