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Technology!
I
love technology, whether its text messaging, checking my emails, visiting with
friends on Facebook or just viewing videos on YouTube. Technology is the way of
the future and it’s not going anywhere any time soon.
However,
there appears to be some arguments that technology happy students may be
slipping a bit in their witting at school with cyber slang. Cyber slang is a
term used to describe shortcuts, alternative words, or even symbols used to
convey thoughts in an electronic document
such as “OMG” (oh my God) or “JK” (just kidding) and “BRB” (be right
back). According to teachers and parents now days, and my mother being both a
parent and an English teacher are convinced that cursive writing is a skill
that were always going to need, and technology is quickly diminishing its
importance.
This screen caps are from my twitter page, on a few people I have been following
just to show how frequently used cyber slang is and how cursive skills have
diminished.
While I can appreciate the
need for correct grammar and for delivering an intelligent point of view about
any given topic, I think our expectations have to change. There is a time for
teaching "writing skills" but also a growing need to recognize the
value of expression and communicating capably with the general public. Text
abbreviations probably shouldn't show up in essays and papers, but all in all,
the omission of unnecessary words and even creative spelling, could very well
be the direction in which our language is going.
Johnson , C. (2013, January 30). [Web log message]. Retrieved from
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I agree with you that texting slang has its purpose i don't feel like i have ever even accidentally written a slang in any of my University papers. I find that people tend to be aware of the situation that they are in and will speak accordingly.
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Great post! Do you personally think that because students use so much cyber slang, that it will appear in formal writing and literacy? I do not believe that it will as we must learn to spell, read and write before we begin using social media such as Facebook and Twitter. What do you think?
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