Re: "Grammar Stinks."

Subject: Re: "Grammar Stinks."
From: "Lin Sims" <linda -dot- sims -at- verizon -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 09:52:11 -0400


It's already happening. I just read an article in the NYTimes that
English teachers are encountering a lot of "Internet Shorthand" in
their students' papers.

See
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/19/technology/circuits/19MESS.html

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On 20 Sep 2002 at 13:14, holmegm -at- attbi -dot- com wrote:

> Keith Cronin wrote:
>
> >>To me the biggest grammatical road hazard kids face is
> >>AOL Instant Messenger. Like most teens, my daughter and
> >>her friends adopt the universal shorthand of the net,
> >>where capitalization, punctuation, and spelling all go
> >>by the wayside.

> and Karen Otto replied
>
> >We only have to wait a couple of years before we see the
> >influence that this shorthand will
> >have on the English language. I believe it will
> >dramatically alter the grammar. It will be
> >the greatest grammatical road hazard WE face, not the
> >kids.
>
> Maybe. I see this bandied about as inevitable, but I
> dunno.
>
> I mean, drastically abbreviating words would have had the
> same supposed benefits in the past, whether using
> typewriters, pen/paper, or papyrus. It would have been
> faster and cheaper, for those used to it. Yet it didn't
> happen, not in the wholesale way ircspeak is supposed to
> r001 us all soon. So my crystal ball is still cloudy on
> this point ... ;)



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