Blog Assignment 7

The essay is about the affect of texting and IMing on language. The writer claim that the texters have developed a language of their own such as abbreviating words and pharases, using homophones, homonyms, numbers, and other various shortening and contractions. They are typing just few characters that already expressed in the same meaning of a longer length and larger amount of information had before. Unlike those typers, usually youth, older generations are unfamilar with these kinds of messages. Addition to, most think this situation makes people have struggled with the proper English and each appropriating for use.

In those essays, youths usually used with the short term of texting or IMing, but not elder generations. However, My mom, or even my granny is sometimes texting me with the language like young people used. As my opinion, it is not for all but some people are using it even though they are old or not. Wiht this circumstance, it is not really effact on the proper language which they had to use for education or other else.

The writers used the research data to support his thesis which is about the Sali Tagliamonte and Derek Denis from the University of Toronto. " They have studied over a million words of instant message communication between more than seventy participants and found that, upon analysis of the conversations, many of the common stereotypes about txt usage are quite far from the truth" As his opinion, it is not advatages for someone who to use text message words without knowing English.

His persuasived idea is actually in the first paragraph as thesis statement. He tries to tell the readers that the textin and IMing is effactive on the language which we usually used.