When most people send a text message, they tend to abbreviate words and spell things incorrectly on purpose! Is texting ruining our grammar? Ross Everett joins DNews to talk about how texting and writing might be two entirely different forms of communication!
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Text-messaging isn’t, like, ruining young people’s grammar
https://theconversation.com/text-messaging-isnt-like-ruining-young-peoples-grammar-28145
“If you think that young people seem to be spending more of their time ‘face-to-screen’ than ‘face-to-face’, you’re probably right. And a lot of that screen time seems to involve reading or writing English that duznt look quite lyk it shld.”
Exploring the relationship between children’s knowledge of text message abbreviations and school literacy outcomes
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1348/026151008X320507/full
“This paper presents a study of 88 British 10–12-year-old children’s knowledge of text message (SMS) abbreviations (‘textisms’) and how it relates to their school literacy attainment.”
Exploring the longitudinal relationships between the use of grammar in text messaging and performance on grammatical tasks
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjdp.12049/full
“Research has demonstrated that use of texting slang (textisms) when text messaging does not appear to impact negatively on children’s literacy outcomes and may even benefit children’s spelling attainment.”
The Definition of Irony
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony
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