Is Internet chat ruining the language? - Page 2

Originally posted by: angel_wings

A recent news story stated that in the U.S. high school students are inserting text messaging abbreviations, "emoticons," and "chat-speak into their formal writing. Some writers and educators are quite alarmed at this phenomenon. James Billingham, the librarian of Congress, worries that chatspeak may bring about "the slow destruction of the basic unit of human thought -- the sentence."

Are we headed for --as a LA Times columnist writes-- "a sentence-less future of three-letter words?"

Please click and read this article
by Mary Kolesnikova and tell me what you think --
(in complete sentences, of course.)

P.s......if its a repeat mods u r more than welcome to close this topic

my vocabulary has not changed lol

yes! im always wanting to use abreveations lolz

Originally posted by: freaky_angel

yes! im always wanting to use abreveations lolz

I think it really depends on people. I use short abbreviations and everything too but when it comes to the professional world, I use the appropriate words and spellings.

To be honest, the Internet cannot be blamed for ruining language. It is human laziness and lethargy. Across the Internet there are people who write immaculate blogs and wonderful content. Wikipedia a user driven encyclopedia has high standards on quality.

People wanted to save time and invented abbreviations. As with a sub culture slang was also created. There is nothing wrong with slang or using abbreviations. But then even grammar, spelling and sentence structure were compromised to make it easy.

The key problem is that we let these online habits creep into our everyday life. We write papers and even bring internet speak into everyday life. I could care less. People can live the rest of their lives sounding like some spastic retarted idiots or they can learn to communicate.

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

To be honest, the Internet cannot be blamed for ruining language. It is human laziness and lethargy. Across the Internet there are people who write immaculate blogs and wonderful content. Wikipedia a user driven encyclopedia has high standards on quality.

People wanted to save time and invented abbreviations. As with a sub culture slang was also created. There is nothing wrong with slang or using abbreviations. But then even grammar, spelling and sentence structure were compromised to make it easy.

The key problem is that we let these online habits creep into our everyday life. We write papers and even bring internet speak into everyday life. I could care less. People can live the rest of their lives sounding like some spastic retarted idiots or they can learn to communicate.

I try not to use abbreviations when I write so that it becomes easy for people to understand what I'm saying.

heehee, i don't know about chatting online, but using the computer to write essays has it's pro's and con's. The con being that i depend too much on the spell check to correct my spellings. Sometimes I learn out of it, sometimes I don't.