I taught writing classes at the University of Illinois and Rend Lake Community College and currently I teach technology at a K-8 charter school. Not only have I seen LOL, lack of capitals, writing "ur" for "your" or other texting phrases in rough drafts, but I even heard professionals replace common language with abbreviated text message lingo. Like instead of saying "I don't know" they said "IDK". I don't know if this is impeding the spoken and written language, but I'm guessing so, at least from a professional, educational standpoint. However there are some that disagree and even a study that looked at the phenomenon.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
AAMOF, 404
What does that mean? "As a matter of fact, I have no clue." Even though I use tech in my job and teach middle school, I still am not savvy on text language. Is it detrimental to written and spoken language? I think so, and here is why.
I taught writing classes at the University of Illinois and Rend Lake Community College and currently I teach technology at a K-8 charter school. Not only have I seen LOL, lack of capitals, writing "ur" for "your" or other texting phrases in rough drafts, but I even heard professionals replace common language with abbreviated text message lingo. Like instead of saying "I don't know" they said "IDK". I don't know if this is impeding the spoken and written language, but I'm guessing so, at least from a professional, educational standpoint. However there are some that disagree and even a study that looked at the phenomenon.
I taught writing classes at the University of Illinois and Rend Lake Community College and currently I teach technology at a K-8 charter school. Not only have I seen LOL, lack of capitals, writing "ur" for "your" or other texting phrases in rough drafts, but I even heard professionals replace common language with abbreviated text message lingo. Like instead of saying "I don't know" they said "IDK". I don't know if this is impeding the spoken and written language, but I'm guessing so, at least from a professional, educational standpoint. However there are some that disagree and even a study that looked at the phenomenon.
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