Misc.

So for English right now I am writing an essay over 2b or Not 2b from our They Say I Say text book. It is an excerpt from David Crystal’s book written in 2008. At the beginning of the passage, before Crystal’s essay there is an excerpt from a newspaper article written by Humphrys where he talks about how texters are ruining the English language. Throughout Crystal’s essay, Crystal argues against what Humphrys says because he believes that texting is not hurting our language. He talks about how our generation is not the generation that started all of this, that our elders abbreviated things as well. The difference between them abbreviating words and us doing it is that they did not have texting and internet so they did not do it all the time. Now that we have texting and internet and that is our main use of communication we use abbreviations to make it quicker and since we do it a lot every day people see it a lot more. A lot of people think it was the younger generations that started this because they did not have texting but really we are just using what they started. He also talks about how he found research over kids and their literature. Kids that used more abbreviations scored higher on their reading and literature tests, weird right? Well, he also talks about how for us to abbreviate things we have to know the meaning of what we are abbreviating. I think this is a good assumption because it is true. He also talks about how we would not send a text that is so full of abbreviations that we couldn’t understand it because we still have to pay for the texts that we send so why send one that doesn’t make sense to send another that does. I think texting is very controversial but I don’t think it is a bad idea.