Texting - the dumbing down of society?
This post is about how people use mobile phones and in particular text messaging - it was touched on briefly in today's lecture. The issue I want to raise is the impact of texts on modern language use. I believe the advent of text messaging, specifically in New Zealand (I can't comment on other countries), has reduced the ability for people to express themselves. Take emails for example. How many people use text-speak to write instead of normal English? What's their reasoning for doing so? Time-saving? Laziness? A more extreme example is in everyday speech. Has anyone said "lol" in a conversation instead of laughing? Personally I find it slightly annoying when someone sends an email full of text-speak and abbreviations. I've said "lol" in emails myself. Eventually, everyone will speak in abbreviations and have no vocabulary at all. A little extreme perhaps? Perhaps texting links in with how people use new technologies and the flow-on effect to other aspects of society.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
posted by Anonymous at 4:52 pm
1 Comments:
i don't think that text language is anything to do with time-saving or laziness, it's more that the entire of the medium of text messaging is confind to the allowing only 150 characters in a text. So in reaction to this restriction, we mended our language to fit the medium, so the abbrivations i think are just a matter of conforming to the restrictions of a particular medium. As for the overflow of language to other mediums such as email and and television it's only normal i guess it's natural progression of popular culture. Just a thought
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