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Mr. Hernandez
English 150
December 3, 2014
The new Language
Today in day’s people doesn’t communicate like we used to before texting were invented. As technology keeps advancing our language do too, most of the people don’t talk no more, people text instead. Back in the days we need it to wait months for letters sent over seas. Some people are happy that we don’t have to do that no more, now just using a Network can be send letters or important messages in 3 seconds. Some people are concerned that our new form of communication is destroying our language. Numerous authors had shared their points of view on the new trend of texting, some accept it, and others criticize it. As a reference John Humphrys, David Crystal and Louis Menand are some of the writers to judge the recent technology. I believe texting is a faster way to communicate, but without abbreviations, not if we’re trying to save the English language Jhon Humphrys narrates his disappointment contra the generation of “Thumbspeak”. In the fragment “ I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language”, he says that searching words in the dictionary is one of the enjoyments of life, before the Oxford English Dictionary decides to change approximately sixteen thousand words in the new edition, because according to the editor “ we live in a world where we cant stop to make one more key stroke”. Humphrys fear was that the new generations would be overwhelmed by abbreviations and incomplete words.
David crystal, on the other hand, praises this new way of communication. In his text “2B or not 2B?” he claims that texting will not lead to a disaster in the English language. HE argues that, in order to text, one must know the sounds and grammar of the language, to be able to make abbreviations alter on. Mr. Menand has a clever response to this statement. In his fragment “ Thumbspeak: Is texting here to stay? “ he says that texting is as complicated as Morse Codfing. His main concern seemed to
Mr. Hernandez
English 150
December 3, 2014
The new Language
Today in day’s people doesn’t communicate like we used to before texting were invented. As technology keeps advancing our language do too, most of the people don’t talk no more, people text instead. Back in the days we need it to wait months for letters sent over seas. Some people are happy that we don’t have to do that no more, now just using a Network can be send letters or important messages in 3 seconds. Some people are concerned that our new form of communication is destroying our language. Numerous authors had shared their points of view on the new trend of texting, some accept it, and others criticize it. As a reference John Humphrys, David Crystal and Louis Menand are some of the writers to judge the recent technology. I believe texting is a faster way to communicate, but without abbreviations, not if we’re trying to save the English language Jhon Humphrys narrates his disappointment contra the generation of “Thumbspeak”. In the fragment “ I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language”, he says that searching words in the dictionary is one of the enjoyments of life, before the Oxford English Dictionary decides to change approximately sixteen thousand words in the new edition, because according to the editor “ we live in a world where we cant stop to make one more key stroke”. Humphrys fear was that the new generations would be overwhelmed by abbreviations and incomplete words.
David crystal, on the other hand, praises this new way of communication. In his text “2B or not 2B?” he claims that texting will not lead to a disaster in the English language. HE argues that, in order to text, one must know the sounds and grammar of the language, to be able to make abbreviations alter on. Mr. Menand has a clever response to this statement. In his fragment “ Thumbspeak: Is texting here to stay? “ he says that texting is as complicated as Morse Codfing. His main concern seemed to