Txtng is killing language
Video 5 John McWhorter- Txtng is killing language.
The difference between texting and
speaking. First there's speech, and then
writing comes along as a kind of artifice. When you write, because
it's a conscious process, can look to the past, you
can do things with language that are much less likely if
you're just talking. Casual speech is something quite different. Linguists
have actually shown that when we're speaking casually in an
unmonitored way, we tend to speak in word packets of maybe seven
to 10 words per sentences. . Speech is much more looser. It's much more
telegraphic. It's much less reflective and very different from
writing. So, people naturally tend
to think, when they see language written so often, that's what language is, but actually language
is speech. They are two different things. Texting is fingered speech and it is
very loose in its structure.
No
one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texting another.
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