John McWhorter, a language expert spoke about how he believes texting is killing our language. Using the word 'lol' has now become sufficiently more common than ever before. It is being used to continue conversations, start them and fill them. The word 'lol' meaning, laugh out loud, has recently lost its meaning because of the everyday use of which it has.
During his speech he says a series of quotes, these are;
"The idea is that texting spells the decline and fall of any kind of serious literacy, or at least writing ability, among young people in the United States, and now the whole world today."
"One thing that we see is that texting is not writing at all."
"If humanity had existed for 24 hours, then writing only came around at about 11:07pm."
"Linguists have actually shown that when we're speaking causally in an unmonitored way, we tend to speak in word packets of maybe seven to ten words."
"Texting is very loose in its structure."
"Texting is...fingered speech."
"Examine this linguistic miracle happening right under our noses."
"Increasing evidence is that being bilingual is cognitively beneficial. Thats also true of being bodialectal."
All of these quotes are expressing the opinions of which are his own and come from what he believes about texted language. Clearly as you can see he isn't the biggest fan of the texted language and prefers written, standard english. From the title of the article, it is clear that he believes that the language of texting is destroying our language.
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