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How Has Texting Chanched Writing PDF

Texting has transformed writing by introducing a new structure that combines alphabetic characters, images, and cultural references for communication. While some view texting as a degradation of language, John McWhorter argues it represents a new dialect, allowing young people to become bidialectal. This evolution in communication reflects a linguistic miracle rather than a decline in language quality.

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How Has Texting Chanched Writing PDF

Texting has transformed writing by introducing a new structure that combines alphabetic characters, images, and cultural references for communication. While some view texting as a degradation of language, John McWhorter argues it represents a new dialect, allowing young people to become bidialectal. This evolution in communication reflects a linguistic miracle rather than a decline in language quality.

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How has texting changed writing? Is texting killing language?

Writing has always been different from According to John McWharter, there are those
speaking, as it has always had more who believe that messaging is a downgrade from
developed phrases and ideas. Since writin. But in his TED talk “Txting is killing
languag. JK!!!” he explains a new perspective to
feelings and context can’t be shown
view texting.
through interactions and body language
in writin, it needs to be more precise. Texting could be seen as an inferior way of writin,
or it could be seen as a new dialect where people
combine the alphabe, images and sociocultural
With the appearance of texting this has references to communicate.
changed, and a new structure has been
developed. Uncounciously, young people are becoming
bidilectual by developing this new dialect called

A new structure or lack of texting!

This is what John McWorther calls a


structure? LINGUISTE MRACLE

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