Few years ago, when I was having a lesson about grammar, my teacher said, “The one who use txt talk are unintelligent and incapable of managing English well.” At that time, I believed what he said and abandoned using txt talk no matter in SMS, IM or Facebook without thinking much. But after acquiring more knowledge about different parts of English, I rethink this question now and wonder whether the teacher is correct.
As discussed in the lecture notes and quoted, there is no correlation between the ‘non-standard’ language in IM and students’ assignments. (Jones 2003) The saying mentioned above may be just a stereotype or an exceptional case. Rather than unintelligence, I see it as kind of normal language change and creativity.
When languages come to a new era, languages changes according to the new cultures, different issues and so on. It happened in the past too. For instance, when French invaded Britain in the ealier centuries, more than hundreds of French words were adopted to British English and some of them are still used today. The txt talk are going thtough the same stage. A new language is developed and still under development to be accepted by public.
The txt talk creators are really creative to make up all these abbreviations, homophones, emoticons and so on. When people want to type faster, they may just simply practice more and speed up their typing speed. But those creators establish a brand new system of language, txt talk. Not only speed up the typing speed by practicing more, they also do it by shortening the words and sentences to show what they want to say. It is a kind of intelligence and creativity from another point of view. The creators have the ability to manage English well and create those tex talk. What do you think about it? Do you think you can be one of those “creative” creators?
When languages come to a new era, languages changes according to the new cultures, different issues and so on. It happened in the past too. For instance, when French invaded Britain in the ealier centuries, more than hundreds of French words were adopted to British English and some of them are still used today. The txt talk are going thtough the same stage. A new language is developed and still under development to be accepted by public.
The txt talk creators are really creative to make up all these abbreviations, homophones, emoticons and so on. When people want to type faster, they may just simply practice more and speed up their typing speed. But those creators establish a brand new system of language, txt talk. Not only speed up the typing speed by practicing more, they also do it by shortening the words and sentences to show what they want to say. It is a kind of intelligence and creativity from another point of view. The creators have the ability to manage English well and create those tex talk. What do you think about it? Do you think you can be one of those “creative” creators?
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ReplyDeletehahaha!!!I am one of those ppl who type very slowly and i found it very annoying when i had arguments with my ex. bf. You know Y? Becoz he always typed so fast and liked to use shortened forms of words. Although those words were abbreiated, i could still understand perfectly!!!! Actually, i think he was very smart and creative cuz it's not easy to relate the sounds of words to the letters in a short time and then create some new txt.
ReplyDeleteI love to create new txt too! Could you guess what LA stands for? Tips: it's usually used to describe a personality of elderly people :)
ReplyDeleteI do think that txt talk is creative and it's a efficient of communication! Sometimes it's weird to have the whole complete sentence to be typed on our Mobile phones or instant messengers. Don't you think so?
ReplyDeleteSometimes I like to find these new txt talk and try to get the full message, like a code breaking specialist in wartime :D
ReplyDeleteOn one way I can see the users are very clever to create such abbreviations fitting with a fast communication era. But on the other hand I will have some worries of miscommunication to people don't know that much. I think it needs time to have a communication about how to use these txt talks