Is Texting Ruining English Language Analysis
Hieu Tran
Professor Michael Mannion
English 12 A
27 October 2013
Is Texting Ruining The English Language? In this weeks video John McWhorter talks about texting. John studies how language has evolved -- and will evolve -- with social, historical and technological developments, in addition to studying and writing about race in America. He argues that we always hear texting is a negative decline or fall in serious literature or writing ability. That texting ruins someone’s ability to write or speak in a grammatically correct way. When In it really doesn’t, language is speech. Speech is much looser, its much more telegropahic. Very different from writing, we tend to see language being written often. That we think that’s what language is.
Professor Michael Mannion
English 12 A
27 October 2013
Is Texting Ruining The English Language? In this weeks video John McWhorter talks about texting. John studies how language has evolved -- and will evolve -- with social, historical and technological developments, in addition to studying and writing about race in America. He argues that we always hear texting is a negative decline or fall in serious literature or writing ability. That texting ruins someone’s ability to write or speak in a grammatically correct way. When In it really doesn’t, language is speech. Speech is much looser, its much more telegropahic. Very different from writing, we tend to see language being written often. That we think that’s what language is.