Texting is destroying languages

Mara Isabel Heredia

Wilbur Schramm, the author of The Story of Human Communication said,
"Communications has helped to cement the connection of ideas and
knowledge, the history of human communication is really a history, not of
action, but of interaction". Communication has changed through history: The
number of channels of communication has increased, and new words and
expressions are added to dictionaries every year. A person's social, cultural and
economic environment determine how he conceive and use language.
Therefore, the 21st century generation has fit into a new technological
environment and people has changed the way they communicate. For instance,
messaging has modified languages by using acronyms and abbreviations to
express ideas. This has changed the use of languages, specially English.
Therefore, texting altered languages instead of making them richer because
overusing this method makes people confused or even forget spelling and
grammar rules, be less likely to learn new words, and lose interest in more
complex texts.

Students who constantly text are losing their ability to spell and they no longer
use grammatical rules. The principal reason for this is that all knowledge and
skill require practice or it will be forgotten. If teenagers text all day using
abbreviations and they don't write in the proper way, they will decrease their
writing skills and have orthographic errors. Furthermore, text messaging makes
the brain confused because it has two different writing codes for the same

words and idioms and it can't figure out the best choice. When a person is used
to write with acronyms, the regular writing code becomes twice harder to do,
for that reason the mind become puzzled. Finally, texting makes writing skills
don't improve. The students can't develop their writing abilities because waist
time and resources doing the same mistakes over and over again. In
conclusion, it is necessary to focus in a goal if the students want to improve,
and text messaging distract them from the faithful use of language.

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