Twtr? It's majorly bad! Letter to the Editor.

Texting in the last decade has emerged as the new communicative language. People use it on their phones to quickly talk and tell each other about certain things. And it’s not just kids. The majority of texts being sent out are from adults. And even so, text speak is only made for writing. If someone was to try and say these words out loud no one would be able to comprehend such. This isn’t a new language but instead a new technique towards communicating. As well as that if you look at the new mobile phones from Android and Apple being released you would notice that text speak is slowly being pushed out for a more standardized English in such conversations. The new Apple and Android phones have the full keyboard to offer, making words much easier to type (unlike the old Nokia phones). If you look at the beginning of the 21^st century, the old phones would require multiple buttons pushed multiple times in order to achieve one letter. That made writing long sentences or words much harder. These days that is not the case.

Kids also know that if you try and use these types of words and try to incorporate them into more formal sentences it won’t work. Saying such words in an essay usually come from confusion from the children. They would have to know how to spell the word first in order to spell it incorrectly. If you look at the word ‘gr8’ of course you would know not to put a number in that word; especially in more formal means of communication. So kids do know that you would need to know how to spell the word to then re-spell it for an easier way to use text speak.Another concept that these headmasters seem to be unable to comprehend is the fact that the standard of English has become much stronger. Over the decades there has always been this fear of the lack of the standardization of English in people. But if you look at our pasts you would notice the huge improvements into the educational standards of students and the ability of them to speak this language.

Text speak should be accepted as its own language. Not because it represents the standard of English, but because it represents its own communicative ordeal. Rejecting a new language that people use to communicate because it doesn’t represent its standard is absurd. If you reject text speak you can also look forward to rejecting the other types of English used around the regions of the English speaking world.