JOHN MC WHORTER : TEXTING IS KILLING LANGUAGE

The idea of texting spells the decline and fall for any kind of serious literacy or writing ability among young people in whole world today. The fact of the matter is not true and it could be true if we see it in another way. Mr. Whorter stated that texting is a miraculous thing. A kind of emergent complexity that happening nowadays among young people. In this case, what we know is texting is writing but actually that’s not writing at all. Basically, language has existed for perhaps 150,000 years and what is arose is  speech where people are talking and that’s how we use language most. while writing is a skill which come along with it.

 In a distant era now, it was common when someone gave a speech that basically talking like writing. If you can speak like writing, then logically it follows that you also want to write like you speak. It’s almost impossible to do that with your hand except shorthand, then the communication becomes limited. The fact is even if you can type easily enough to keep up with the pace of speech, more and less you have to have somebody who can receive your message quickly. Once you have things in your pocket that can receive that message, then you have the conditions that allow you to write like you speak. That’s where texting comes in.

Texting is very loose in its structure and no one thinks about capital letters of punctuation while writing. Texting is finger speech and now we can write the way we talk. The fact shows that texting makes a new structure in writing. For example, there is a texting conversation which is is LOL as meaning “laughing out loud”. LOL is used in particular way within means they are in empathy and accommodation. A pragmatic particle is what LOL has gradually become and it’s a way of using the language between actual people.

So, texting is actually an evidence of balancing act of young people using today.

The way we think texting is the way what we are seeing in a whole new ways of writing that young people are developing. They use a long side ordinary writing skill and that’s mean they are able to do two things. Increasing evidence is being bilingual that cognitively beneficial and also true of being bidialectal.