The Language of texting has become a world full of abbreviations and acronyms, three letter's making up entire concepts. This is something the military has done for years. Let's look at some military acronyms and you can see that the difference is very small.
CONUS stands for continental united states, GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time, REF is short for reference and ETA is estimated time of arrival. There are tons more, but these are some of the big ones.
In the civilian world, this has become a way of life. A whole new lingo if you will. So what are some of the pro's and con's of texting? Well, let's look at the con's first.
Some say it makes for a faceless world. A world where emotions are not emotiocons or (happy faces, sad faces etc) and this has taken the place of regular writing and adding exclamation points or question marks.
Maybe this is why very soon, cursive is no longer going to be taught as a way of writing the English Language, it's all going to be three, four, five letter acronyms on a cell phone or keyboard.
On the Pro side of texting, some say its a great way to communicate because you can "think" about your response, you can also send massive responses to groups of people for special occasions and reminders, and in my case, send in your order at Subway while my wife is on line to get a sandwich.
It's also a quiet way to communicate in the movies or in a place where you should not be talking. Of course
being in places like church or synagogue is not recommended to text back and forth, but if there is a semi-emergency, texting can be a good thing in extreme cases, when you cannot leave right away.
So what do we have with texting. Shorter words, sentences dumped into letters, gestures and characters making up a feeling and maybe punctuation. Punctuation should always be used in any form, as it does give a good meaning to the text message. Pauses, comma's, periods, exclamations and so forth, gives a tone to your text. What you do not want to do when texting, is use a tone, that is read wrong at the other end.
Unfortunately this happens way too often.
So, without controversy, the debate of the usefulness of texting and the Language of texting remains. But really, is there going to be a debate. I cannot fathom the fact that in just a few years, texting has become popular. I honestly thought it would die out, laterally, who likes typing anyway?
Do not teenagers love to talk on the phone, at least that is what we thought. Well, the movement of texting had caught me by surprise. In one way, it is ruining good solid English in our younger generation, on the other hand, with computers, this is the wave for the future.
The question is, technology or proper use of prepositional phrases? What do you think is more important. To me, they seem to be at war with one another. To others, they seem to go hand in hand, and yet, to others, texting seems to work for all nationalities, bringing in the tower of babel per say, and we all know what happened in that story.
Do not get me wrong, texting has its good points, but a good old fashioned cup of coffee, talking to friends, co workers, or family, face to face, beats any text, any day, hands down.
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