2b or Not 2b?

Summary: In this article “2b or Not 2b,” by David Crystal did a short report on how texting has made people illiterate. It gives examples of people who give abbreviations instead of the actual words. A great example of this would be the contest between two people on page 342, where the winner wrote conventionally and the runner up wrote in “text talk.” One thing children don’t understand is that in order to be “good” at texting, they would need to first develop considerable literacy awareness. This goes for people of all ages, without proper literacy, we would all sound to simple and great pieces of art, such as Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” would be non-existent.

Response:  I agree that texting is making more and more people illiterate. Judging by today’s teenagers and the way they speak, it appears to me that most of them have no idea how to use correct grammar. Most things I hear from them are phrases such as “finna” which is apparently a replacement for “gonna” which isn’t a word either, it should be “going to” or “about to.” In my honest opinion is that we in society have downgraded in terms of correct grammar and over abuse of abbreviations. Aside from the lack of proper grammar use in today’s society this article was interesting to read and happened to be something that could relate to.