"Are instant messaging and text messaging killing language? To hear what the popular media say, a handful of OMGs (oh my god) and smiley faces, along with a paucity of capital letters and punctuation marks, might be bringing English to its knees."
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Technology is increasing everyday and almost everyone in the entire world has at least a cell phone or a computer including my 80 year old grandparents. I am completely pro-technology in the classroom to enhance learning but I believe that today’s generation is losing sight of the traditional English written language when instant messaging/text messaging. The traditional English written language is a very important aspect to our history and it’s the traditional English written language that is taught to foreigners that come to live in America. Losing sight of this traditional English Written language that I speak of will only enhance the language barrier that exists today with foreigners. The younger the children start using the abbreviations, and lack of capital letters and punctuation marks, the harder it will be for these children to write a "traditional English Written" paper. I'm not always pro-traditions, I like to shake things up time to time, but I believe that this tradition should remain the primary written language for Americans.
Related Sources: BBC News article about this issue.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/2815461.stm
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