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Text messaging is destroying our English language, corrupting young minds, turning us into illiterates. Grammar is suffering from having been educationally unfashionable. Text messaging is encouraging people to transmit their thoughts with strange combinations of letters strung together with no punctuation, grammar or even separation.
The first issue is that both instant and mobile messages encourage the use of informal and abbreviated language among teenagers. Getting used to sending lots of wrong, broken and bending spelling and grammar rules may have its great future impact on teenagers who are still unaware of the dangers of depriving their languages. While writing messages, teenagers try to shorten their sentences as much as possible even if they use just misleading words. For example, "see you then “by CU, "thanks” by THNX, "got to go” by GTG," what is up” by WUZZUP, and the list goes on and on with endless number of abbreviations. People do not realize on the way they write; thinking everything is flowing the correct way, until they get their paper back then they realize the slang words they were using. Making words shorter is a habit when text messaging is addicting to one.
One might see a long sentence combining with two or three lines without even a period, a comma or a capital letter. Instant messaging and email have both had the same kind of impact on writing ability as text messaging has; causing choppy sentences and limiting word choices to the words with five letters. The real problem with text messaging isn’t how it affects language, but what it does to social interaction. For instance, is there anything more annoying when you’re trying to have a conversation than watching your companion’s eyes flitting to his phone when he sees that a text message just arrived?
People have problems with the use of text messaging and emailing but this is about just sending quick messaging and not an essay. Email might be more...