Make You Sound Insincere Summary

Bettering the credibility to text, you don’t even have to talk and can still express your emotions with emoticons when you send a message. “Scientists have discovered that when we look at a smiley face

The result verified that there is evidence of a decline in grammar scores based on the number of abbreviations in their sent and received text messages (Swayne and Messer). In other words, the word abbreviations and punctuation short-cuts that famously used in text messaging can alter individuals’ ability to recognize and apply proper spelling, grammar and punctuation techniques in writing and daily life communication. If the uses of abbreviations are not controlled from the beginning, both sender and receiver of text messaging will be associated with how poorly they will perform on the test based on the level of standard literacy they have.

We as a society are evolving with each generation to come. We are getting stronger, faster, and smarter. Just as cell phones are no longer square blocks with numbers on them and TV’s are not in black and white, writing itself has also evolved. Once upon a time many wrote and spoke in a Shakespearean form of language and over the years it has evolved into something we call modern English. In recent years, technology has advanced greatly and cell phones have become one of our primary use of communication. With cell phones came a new form of writing called text messaging. Text messaging is used to send short, concise messages to anyone around the world. Often times text messages involve the use of abbreviations which stand for different things and also involves frequent use of emoji’s as a form of expression. This form of writing is now considered informal writing and is not acceptable in academic settings. In Michaela Cullington’s essay “Does Texting Affect Writing?” she touches on both sides of whether texting is hindering students writing or if it’s actually having a positive effect. She then makes is clear that she believes most students are educated enough to know when text speak is appropriate and when it’s not so therefore it has no effect on students. Although, I agree with her thesis, she lacks credibility due to her insufficient evidence. In addition, I also believe

In the article, “Does Punctuation in Text Messages Matter?”, by Shannon Doyne, proclaims that the way people use punctuation in texting and emails is harming people and the world. Her views of how proper punctuation is important is strongly disagreeable because it matters more on what the message means rather than the punctuation. Shannon argues, “Recently, a friend I had dinner plans with sent a text to ask ‘what time’ … And yet the question… felt indifferent, almost cold. Couldn’t she at least bother to insert the necessary character?”(Shannon) Most people would have no problem with the text because it is getting the message clear telling what time as in dinner. The fact that she sent “A half-dozen emails back and forth,”(Shannon) means that her friend is obviously comfortable with her conversations, not trying to be mean. Later on in the article, Shannon points out, “Instead of responding to a text with ‘Can’t wait!!’ I’ll insert a space or two before the mark ‘Can’t wait !!’ … Sometimes I’ll make the exclamation point a parenthetical, as a kind of after thought.”(Shannon) It really does not matter that

The abbreviation is usually caught in student’s paper as well as they are so used to it that they don't even recognize using it. That may cause a bigger issue when they start writing a job application or business proposal within using a bunch of shorthand and emoji faces. In fact, texting acronym and shorthand as “ttyl"( talk to you later) or “gr8” (great) restrict young writers’ mind. It shows a decline in building complete sentences or accomplished a critical idea. And yet texting does not “stress the importance of punctuation". However, It seems like Cullington is trying to persuade people to the opposite idea. The sources have an accurate data and those situation, such as teachers are complaining about their students are lack of writing skills which is blamed on texting addiction, are real. It’s obviously an evidence whether it’s limited or not. Nevertheless, Cullington believes that It just "based on just a few personal experiences rather than on a significant amount of

Emojis are a big part of our society. Emoji’s should be used, for people to have emotion in written communication. An article published by Los Angeles Times states, “But emojis quickly surpassed emoticon use for two key reasons: There’s a lot more people can communicate with emojis. “I can make an emoji that’s a whale or a penguin,” said Internet language expert Gretchen McCulloch.”I don’t even know how I would do that with emoticons”. McCulloch is saying that he didn’t know how emotion would be like without emojis. And how everyone uses them in everyday life. An article made by Big Think, and written by Orion Jones saying, “Because the tone of a conversation affects how we react, and because physical cues help set tone, emoticons are much

Courtney Treco English 152 November 5, 2014 Is Texting Destroying Our Language? In David Crystals article, 2B or Not 2B, he discusses texting and how it is not destroying language. First in the article Crystals compares his ideas to an article written by John Humphrys, who believes that texting is wrecking language and stated that people who text are “vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. ”(Page

It allows everyone in the conversation, which can be two people only or very large numbers, online at the same time. Texting is slower than just talking, so the Digital Natives have invented ways to speed it up. “Correct” spelling is replaced by whatever is readable. Anything that can be done with one key is: “k” for OK, and the way characters look on the screen takes on meaning. Abbreviations are well-known (LOL=laugh out loud and a semi-secret code has evolved to protect privacy, as in “GTG POS” (got to go, parent over shoulder.) to make yourself understood The “missing” communication elements of facial observation and body language are often approximated in both email and texting by “emoticon icons” such as the happy, sad or winking

As Stewart Wessel tries to text to his father he has a difficult time telling him that “my birthday party will not be on Sunday because I work late that day, but it will be on Saturday at 7pm and we will be eating ice cream at the Dairy Queen that is about two blocks away from my place.” Unfortunately Mr. Wessel is stuck, there isn’t an emoji to say that and it just will take too much of his time to type what needs to be said. In response, the Unicode Consortium who handles all the text characters has said they would immediately add this emoji to the next specification to prevent anyone else encountering this issue. Stewart Wessel said, “I’m glad that next time I need to tell my dad this I can do it with one emoji because I only use emoji.”

Some prefer conversation, others may prefer texting or calling. How can we interpret what a person is trying to convey when it comes to abbreviating a word while sending a text message? Crystal mentions in his article, “Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood” (par. 7). Considering that a large variety of people would think everything is abbreviated, Crystal argues the fact that, “The most noticeable feature is the use of single letters, numerals, and symbols to represent words or parts of words, as with b “be” and 2 “to”. They are called rebuses, and they go back centuries” (par. 11). For example, in paragraph 11 we are reminded that the abbreviation of IOU was known to be used in 1618. How unique is it to imagine that abbreviations existed before texting

Recently, emojis have entered the texting world and has changed the way communication is interpreted. Imagine getting a text and not being able to interpret whether the other person is upset or is joking around with you. As if someone texted you “What the heck?” and you have no idea whether they are angry or laughing about the situation. Which is where emojis are excellent use for communicating when you need to show the emotion you are having when you send a text. In the article, “Should that frown be upside down? Emojis make the meaning clear” by Tracey Lien explains the importance of emojis and how they can make a difference in the way individuals comprehend the message.

Abbreviations such as lol (laugh out loud), brb (be right back), and ttyl (talk to you later) are commonly used when texting, yet are not really shown in formal writing. Students reported that text speaking formal writing. “Other students use these abbreviations and other speak text in their writing, but catches their mistakes quickly”. (Cullington 364). Supporting her research Cullington asked participants to complete questionnaires’’… the research hypothesized that texting and the use of abbreviations would have a negative impact on students. However, the results did not support their hypothesis. (Cullington 369).

Lauren Collister is correct in arguing that, instead of ignoring or deriding the variation in written language, embracing the change in language and the ability of speakers and writers to code-switch can lead to better communication skills in all contexts. In agreement with her point, she describes that text messaging is a conversation that involves a lot of back and forth, which is right because people use textspeak, not to generate thoughtfulness and literary communication, but to keep in contact and facilitate communication. We see this with the increased use of ellipses, which can invite the recipient to continue the conversation, says Collister by giving an example of the period which is a definitive stop that signals, as linguistics professor Mark Liberman has explained, “This is final, this is the end of the discussion” (qtd. in Collister). To recall, she says earlier this year, psychologist Danielle Gunraj tested how people perceived one-sentence text messages that used a period at the end of the sentence; whereby, participants thought these text messages were more insincere than those that didn’t have a period. “Texting is lacking many of the social cues used in actual face-to-face conversations,” lead researcher Celia Kin said in

Language experts note that emojis also help people online say what they mean. When they write “What the heck?”, for example, they can include a laughing emoji or an angry-faced emoji. That detail communicates whether a person is amused or mad.

We use abbreviations and emoji’s to get our point across. As college students we send so many texting messages that we do not realize that we hold on to those habits of using incorrect spelling and full sentences. Using this way of communication so often has caused college students to carry it over to formal writing projects. Texting is another form of writing, some would believe that it will help with our writing skills but at the same time it making us lose our depth when it comes to writing. Students don’t use a much detail when it comes to writing papers. Grammar gets affected and we get in the habit of abbreviating our words which do not help enhance our writing at all. This articles just goes through saying that texting reflects on a lot more than just students language skills.