How Texting Is Changing The Spelling Of English...

Have you ever stopped and read how you were writing in your essay? Maybe you would be surprised. You find most people writing like they was texting their friend. When you do research on texting I found most people say that texting is changing the world. In chapter 4, Ammon Shea talks about how text messaging is changing the spelling of English. Also, in chapter 4, Kris Axtman explains how texting is creating how English is being used in a new and creative way.

In chapter 4, Ammon Shea talks about how text messaging is changing the spelling of English. Ammon stated,” I contacted several of the spelling-reform organizations in operation today to ask them about their feelings on adopting text-messaging shorthand as a kind of spelling reform” (Amman 21). I really believe what Axtman is saying. If you really look at English and text message you wouldn’t find that much of a difference. Text message is a shorthanded way of English. When teens often try to shorthand their essays and don’t realize that they are doing it. …show more content…
In Axtman article he surveys one professor and a parent on what they think about instant messaging. The professor Neil Randall says,” This is really an extension of what teenagers have always done: recreate the language in their own image. But this new lingo combines writing and speaking to a degree that we’ve never seen before” (Axtman 235). Mary Anne Thomas, a Houston mother says,” They talk with these abbreviated words and run-on sentences with no punctuation. I call it speed talking, and it’s starting to carry over into their homework” (Axtman

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