This is an interesting article about texting. Do you think texting is ruining our language? What do you think? Also, brainstorm ways you think texting can be used to support your learning in college.
I definitely don't think texting is ruining our language. I agree with the article's points about how if anything texting is improving children's writing and reading skills. Really, texting is just extra practice. Texting is actually allowing students to practice their language arts skills without being told to do so. I can understand how some teachers might have this fear that texting could ruin our language, but I don't think that is ever going to happen.
Texting supports my college learning in a couple ways. In the past couple of years I have used texting to communicate with my peers about certain assignments we are working on as a group or as individuals. I enjoy texting so much because it is easier to text my peer a question that will have a one word answer rather than taking time to call him/her and having a 2 min process turn into a 10 min conversation. I have also used texting to communicate with my peers on where we are to meet on campus for our group projects.
I deffinitely think that texting is ruining the English language. I catch myself using terms such as "cuz," "u," and "k" when writing papers in my own college courses. Texting takes away from out grammer and speaking skills, aswell. No one speakes properly anymore. When people speak properly it's almost like we aren't used to hearing it, and we look at them weirdly. Also, texting is so simple and short, we don't use ending marks, commas, quotations, or anything like that, which reflects in out papers. I have had to go back and insert what I left out atleast ten times just in this short response!
As far as supporting my college learning, the only thing that comes to my mind is how I text my peers to ask questions about due dates, assignment, lessons, and so on. Also, if I have missed a class or am going to miss, I will text someone in the same class and let them know to take notes for me and let the professor know, as well. I guess this helps with keeping up to date with things, and staying current.
I feel that as whole, texting is ruining the English language. I text, but I only send and recieve about 20 messages a week. When I text, I try to use complete sentences and I do not shorten words or phrases. But I do know a ton of people who use the texting lingo. I think that texting can be supporting in college when it comes to talking to a classmate about an assignment or project. When I have had to do group work, we texted eachother ideas, meeting dates, and etc. instead of calling eachother. I feel that it is faster and easier to do especially when we all have crazy schedules. With texts, you can get around to them when you have a chance. You don't have to stop what you are doing to take a phone call at inconvient times.
I believe that texting has ruined the English language to a certain extent. I don’t find myself saying ttfn or lol when I am in a personal conversation with someone, but when I type something formal on a computer, I have to check to make sure that I don’t use the letter u instead of typing out the “you”. Little mistakes like this can make the wrong impression if you are e-mailing a professor or your boss. Texting has helped me in my everyday events. I use texting when I have a quick question for someone. Most of the time I don’t have time to go through the salutations and the “how’s things going”. I find texting to be much more efficient when you have a quick question or need to remind someone of an important date. I have also found texting to be beneficial in college. I have a group saved in my phone titled “my lab group”. I use to text the people in my Biology lab to find out when projects were due, what our topic was for that week, or when the computer lab opens. Texting made it easier to text the question rather than to call them, ask them one question and say bye.
I agree with this article 100%. I think texting is helping us more then a problem for us. I agree with the article in saying it is just extra practice. I mean I have friends correct me on it sometimes because I misused something or something is spelt wrong. I think people are just getting used to texting and have to find some kind of problem with it like most do with everything. I use texting for everything. I get most of my information from texting. I ask my peers when things are due, ask questions about assignments, and when we can meet on campus to get our group work done. It makes it a lot simpler instead of having to call each person up, we can put it all in one text and send them all at the same time. I do not see the problem with texting. I hope that there is going to be some way to use texting in teaching soon.
In my opinion, texting is not ruining the English language. People use abbreviations in texting because they don't feel like typing in whole, proper sentences. I text all the time everyday, and my grammar has not been affected by it. Texting 'ttyl' is a lot easier than texting 'talk to you later'. And I would never say the expression, 'ttyl girl!'. I agree with the article in saying that texting is only extra practice.
I believe texting can be used to support learning in college in a few different ways. First of all, I can ask a fellow classmate what assignment is due or when through texting. It's quick and easy. Also, they are numbers you can text to get answers to literally anything you would want to know. This could be helpful.
Texting is wonderful, I use it all the time, and it is not detrimental to the English language in any way in my opinion.
I do not think that texting is ruining the English language. People use shortened letter groupings or "text talk" so that they can type quicker. For me, most of the time I use that because it is so much faster than writing out a long sentence. I will not, however, use anything like TTYL or BRB in my speech. When I am talking I use whole sentences and I think that others should as well. I think that it is really studpid when people use text talk in there normal everyday language. It should be used in texts and texts only. I have actually used text to learn how to spell better. I am the first person to admit that I am the worst speller on the planet but because texts do not have spell check I have learned how to spell better so that I do not look like an idiot.
I think texting is help the English language. It helps to get your point across faster and if your somewhere that's loud it's easier to text cause you don't have to worry about the other person not being able to hear you or have them repeating everything that they're trying to tell you. I myself use hole sentences because I don't get the abbreviations myself, and the people I talk to know if they use abbreviations I'll ask 'What are you trying to say?' It has been a great tool for me in learning how to spell better. Also it's nice for people to get a message to you faster than calling, exspeshaly when someone isn't answering your calls.
I think that texting is not ruining the English language, considering the English language is constantly changing. We are always looking for a shorter, faster way of doing things and texting is just that. Abbreviating is just the shortest way of saying what you have to say and to get your message through the fastest way possible. I have used texting in school to find out about project assignments or questions about homework if unsure of an assignment. We'll just have to face it...txting is here 2 stay!
While I do not think that texting is ruining the English language, I do think that it is ruining the formality of things. Instead of people calling each other to talk, or verbally telling someone Happy Birthday, we all just text that person. I suppose this is still technically a form of communication, however I feel that verbal communication is something that should not be replaced. As far as the written language is concerned, I do not feel that texting has had any effect. While people may use text language when texting, they are still familiar with, and still use, the formal english language, along with proper grammar.
As far as school is concerned, I mainly use texting to find out assignments and criteria for assignments, from my classmates. On numerous occassions I have texted a classmate to ask for their opinion or how they went about doing something. In this case texting is the most useful thing to use, because these questions usually arise around eleven o'clock at night. I do not believe that texting is ruining the English language.....I texted three times while writting this blog :-)
I dont think texting is ruining our English language, its just a fast way of communicating with one another instead of spelling out the whole word. I can see how people start to use it when writing papers, but they usually catch themselves and fix the problem. I use texing to find out about assignments and to see if school is cancelled, to me its just easier and faster.
I definitely don't think texting is ruining our language. I agree with the article's points about how if anything texting is improving children's writing and reading skills. Really, texting is just extra practice. Texting is actually allowing students to practice their language arts skills without being told to do so. I can understand how some teachers might have this fear that texting could ruin our language, but I don't think that is ever going to happen.
ReplyDeleteTexting supports my college learning in a couple ways.
In the past couple of years I have used texting to communicate with my peers about certain assignments we are working on as a group or as individuals. I enjoy texting so much because it is easier to text my peer a question that will have a one word answer rather than taking time to call him/her and having a 2 min process turn into a 10 min conversation. I have also used texting to communicate with my peers on where we are to meet on campus for our group projects.
I deffinitely think that texting is ruining the English language. I catch myself using terms such as "cuz," "u," and "k" when writing papers in my own college courses. Texting takes away from out grammer and speaking skills, aswell. No one speakes properly anymore. When people speak properly it's almost like we aren't used to hearing it, and we look at them weirdly. Also, texting is so simple and short, we don't use ending marks, commas, quotations, or anything like that, which reflects in out papers. I have had to go back and insert what I left out atleast ten times just in this short response!
ReplyDeleteAs far as supporting my college learning, the only thing that comes to my mind is how I text my peers to ask questions about due dates, assignment, lessons, and so on. Also, if I have missed a class or am going to miss, I will text someone in the same class and let them know to take notes for me and let the professor know, as well. I guess this helps with keeping up to date with things, and staying current.
I feel that as whole, texting is ruining the English language. I text, but I only send and recieve about 20 messages a week. When I text, I try to use complete sentences and I do not shorten words or phrases. But I do know a ton of people who use the texting lingo.
ReplyDeleteI think that texting can be supporting in college when it comes to talking to a classmate about an assignment or project. When I have had to do group work, we texted eachother ideas, meeting dates, and etc. instead of calling eachother. I feel that it is faster and easier to do especially when we all have crazy schedules. With texts, you can get around to them when you have a chance. You don't have to stop what you are doing to take a phone call at inconvient times.
I believe that texting has ruined the English language to a certain extent. I don’t find myself saying ttfn or lol when I am in a personal conversation with someone, but when I type something formal on a computer, I have to check to make sure that I don’t use the letter u instead of typing out the “you”. Little mistakes like this can make the wrong impression if you are e-mailing a professor or your boss. Texting has helped me in my everyday events. I use texting when I have a quick question for someone. Most of the time I don’t have time to go through the salutations and the “how’s things going”. I find texting to be much more efficient when you have a quick question or need to remind someone of an important date. I have also found texting to be beneficial in college. I have a group saved in my phone titled “my lab group”. I use to text the people in my Biology lab to find out when projects were due, what our topic was for that week, or when the computer lab opens. Texting made it easier to text the question rather than to call them, ask them one question and say bye.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this article 100%. I think texting is helping us more then a problem for us. I agree with the article in saying it is just extra practice. I mean I have friends correct me on it sometimes because I misused something or something is spelt wrong. I think people are just getting used to texting and have to find some kind of problem with it like most do with everything. I use texting for everything. I get most of my information from texting. I ask my peers when things are due, ask questions about assignments, and when we can meet on campus to get our group work done. It makes it a lot simpler instead of having to call each person up, we can put it all in one text and send them all at the same time. I do not see the problem with texting. I hope that there is going to be some way to use texting in teaching soon.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, texting is not ruining the English language. People use abbreviations in texting because they don't feel like typing in whole, proper sentences. I text all the time everyday, and my grammar has not been affected by it. Texting 'ttyl' is a lot easier than texting 'talk to you later'. And I would never say the expression, 'ttyl girl!'. I agree with the article in saying that texting is only extra practice.
ReplyDeleteI believe texting can be used to support learning in college in a few different ways. First of all, I can ask a fellow classmate what assignment is due or when through texting. It's quick and easy. Also, they are numbers you can text to get answers to literally anything you would want to know. This could be helpful.
Texting is wonderful, I use it all the time, and it is not detrimental to the English language in any way in my opinion.
I do not think that texting is ruining the English language. People use shortened letter groupings or "text talk" so that they can type quicker. For me, most of the time I use that because it is so much faster than writing out a long sentence. I will not, however, use anything like TTYL or BRB in my speech. When I am talking I use whole sentences and I think that others should as well. I think that it is really studpid when people use text talk in there normal everyday language. It should be used in texts and texts only. I have actually used text to learn how to spell better. I am the first person to admit that I am the worst speller on the planet but because texts do not have spell check I have learned how to spell better so that I do not look like an idiot.
ReplyDeleteI think texting is help the English language. It helps to get your point across faster and if your somewhere that's loud it's easier to text cause you don't have to worry about the other person not being able to hear you or have them repeating everything that they're trying to tell you. I myself use hole sentences because I don't get the abbreviations myself, and the people I talk to know if they use abbreviations I'll ask 'What are you trying to say?' It has been a great tool for me in learning how to spell better. Also it's nice for people to get a message to you faster than calling, exspeshaly when someone isn't answering your calls.
ReplyDeleteI think that texting is not ruining the English language, considering the English language is constantly changing. We are always looking for a shorter, faster way of doing things and texting is just that. Abbreviating is just the shortest way of saying what you have to say and to get your message through the fastest way possible. I have used texting in school to find out about project assignments or questions about homework if unsure of an assignment. We'll just have to face it...txting is here 2 stay!
ReplyDeleteWhile I do not think that texting is ruining the English language, I do think that it is ruining the formality of things. Instead of people calling each other to talk, or verbally telling someone Happy Birthday, we all just text that person. I suppose this is still technically a form of communication, however I feel that verbal communication is something that should not be replaced. As far as the written language is concerned, I do not feel that texting has had any effect. While people may use text language when texting, they are still familiar with, and still use, the formal english language, along with proper grammar.
ReplyDeleteAs far as school is concerned, I mainly use texting to find out assignments and criteria for assignments, from my classmates. On numerous occassions I have texted a classmate to ask for their opinion or how they went about doing something. In this case texting is the most useful thing to use, because these questions usually arise around eleven o'clock at night. I do not believe that texting is ruining the English language.....I texted three times while writting this blog
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I dont think texting is ruining our English language, its just a fast way of communicating with one another instead of spelling out the whole word. I can see how people start to use it when writing papers, but they usually catch themselves and fix the problem. I use texing to find out about assignments and to see if school is cancelled, to me its just easier and faster.
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