the revenge of e.e. cummings
(Yes, in honor of the poet, the title is intentionally lower-cased.)
Came upon this article, the revenge of e.e. cummings, over at the International Herald Tribune.
a big natl study by the College Board and Pew Project on the Internet and American Life finds teenagers riting more b/c of txting but in a hybrid language with conventions of its own: call it Textlish. they don't consider it frml english but 64 percent admit it seeps into their writing at school.
we get da need for shorthand when thumbs fly on tiny keypads. but we thot technology wd enhance communication, not blur every boundary b/w frml language and slang. and dont even get us started on emoticons!
Given the way history has worked, I have a feeling text and chat-speak is going to take over eventually. Well, let’s see.
Came upon this article, the revenge of e.e. cummings, over at the International Herald Tribune.
a big natl study by the College Board and Pew Project on the Internet and American Life finds teenagers riting more b/c of txting but in a hybrid language with conventions of its own: call it Textlish. they don't consider it frml english but 64 percent admit it seeps into their writing at school.
we get da need for shorthand when thumbs fly on tiny keypads. but we thot technology wd enhance communication, not blur every boundary b/w frml language and slang. and dont even get us started on emoticons!
well, tempora quid faciunt. dis not lingo but latin: times change. early america's founders wud uppercase almost every noun; maybe Sterling really is a visionary. Still, on the 25th anniversary of "A Nation at Risk," the seminal report on America's educational challenges, who wudda thot the big threat to riting wd b the cellfone?
Click on the link above to read the whole piece.Given the way history has worked, I have a feeling text and chat-speak is going to take over eventually. Well, let’s see.
posted by pgenrestories at 12:28 PM
2 Comments:
While I do dislike txtspeak, sometimes I wonder exactly what Shakespeare, Marlowe (or other Olde Englishe luminaries) would think of our modern language when taken from their point of view. Most certainly our formal English now would have been much like txtspeak to them.
I thought of that too, Sean. Thus, my prediction in this post's last paragraph. The chances of this happening seem likely.
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