I just really need to vent...!?

Question

I spend lot of time in LGBT which in turn means many of the questions are from teenagers and early twenty somethings.

If I have to read one more question which is 40 lines long and contains NO punctuation I may need to go to the ER to have them stop my eyes bleeding. I mentally run out of breath while I am reading them.

How hard is it to use a paragraph or a fullstop.

Texting is KILLING the English (and possibly all other) languages.

I am starting to wonder whether the great social divide will be about those who can spell SHOULD as opposed to SHUD or those who create a logical presentation as opposed to those whose first slide will kick off the presentation with the word LIKE....Like the most important like way to communicate like with your .... you see where I am going.

OK - I now feel a little less like stabbing these children in the eyes with a pencil and will wander back to illiteracy land.

So - what are your thoughts?

Answer 1

As for body language I understand all that needs to be understood. Put simply, if the dick is hard, I must be doing something right, right?

Answer 2

To some degree, the schools need to take the blame. In many schools, there is far less weight put upon correct spelling, punctuation and grammar. They are all for "creativity" -- whatever they mean by that. I suppose they want to make kids feel better about their inabilities rather than teaching them how to survive in the adult world where one "misteak" can often doom you to the unemployment line.



Teens simply do the expedient. Many of them do know how to use the principles but are often pressured by semi-literate peers to "dumb down" their usage to be "one of the gang." Maybe I was simply more resistant to the "ignorance virus" but as a result of my quest for accuracy in language as well as its proper usage, I did manage to become a published author of three books including a textbook though I never had a single course in writing in college.



Y, I ask, R U so adamant on this issue? Sometimes, it is fun to defy the rules ... especially when they aren't illegal, immoral or fattening! I'd rather see a kid texting than doping, or getting sassy rather than getting pregnant. Lighten up. Judge them on their lives as a whole, not on the quality of their language usage on Yahoo where the service itself tells you -- if you are literate -- "You used a lot of punctuation" when it can't find spelling errors and has the worst spell checker I have ever seen, offering non-words and capitals in the middle of sentences as options.

Answer 3

I agree with you! It seems as if teenagers are destroying the English language with things like, awks, I am a teen myself, and I do sometimes use these terms out of pure lazyness, but it is not at all a need to use these slangs.

Answer 4

I agree with this. See, the little things that happen to bother me would be the people that don't know the difference between where, were, we're.. they're, there, their... you're your, etc etc.

I even find myself getting into arguments with people for not using proper grammar. They really try to DEFEND themselves. "Why do we need it? Its juss facebook!"

If you don't stop writing, typing, and texting like that now, will you ever?