Essay On Texting Is Killing Language

Picture this, you have been an English teacher at a local middle school for many years. You recently assigned an essay for the students to complete, and you are currently reading over their work. However, you begin to feel dismay as you notice the simple mistakes your students make, such as not capitalizing proper nouns or using phrases that aren’t actual words in their writing. You mark them down, giving them a lower score and move on, hoping that the next student lives up to their potential. As the age of technology progresses and texting is used daily, it has become evident that texting is indeed killing language. Words are being abbreviated or spelled incorrectly. Furthermore, people aren’t paying attention to grammar nor proper capitalization and punctuation. The use of emojis in texting has also played a major role in the deterioration of language. People have poor spelling due to abbreviations, seem to ignore punctuation, and proper grammar usage.
The article, “Should that frown be upside down? Emojis make the meaning clear”, written by Tracey Lien describes how controversy erupted over an emoji becoming the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year. The expressive, yellow faces show the deterioration of language. We aren’t progressing with language if we consider pictures words. Emojis don’t consist of letters and can't be spoken nor spelled. Our language should be advancing, not going back in time by using pictures to communicate just like how the Egyptians used hieroglyphics. However, many may argue and say that texting is not killing language. The TED Talk video "Txting is Killing Language. JK!!" by John McWhorter states how some believe that texting is a whole new language, another dialect created by the younger generation. The video further goes on to state how texting isn’t even writing at all and is speech, only written so it should be informal without following any of the rules of