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Online chat ruining kids' language skills

kranky

kranky

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An article in USA Today leads off with a story about a 15-year-old who wrote this on his job application: "i want 2 b a counselor because i love 2 work with kids."
 
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I always try to be grammatically correct when chatting - spelling counts too.🙂
 
I try to be correct when I post, but not when I chat. The only thing I will leave out in chat is capitalization and punctuation. I am just too lazy to hit the shift button when it's not necessary 🙂 I tend to be a fanatic about everything else though.

The minute I get an application at my work that has ANY shorthand words, I will immediately throw it away.

-silver
 
Originally posted by: yamahaXS
hahha what a dumb article. USA today must really be hurting if they can't find better news than that.
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I guess they couldn't top themselves after that "NASCAR is harder than the Tour de France" Top-10 hardest things in sports tripe.
 
Originally posted by: kranky
An article in USA Today leads off with a story about a 15-year-old who wrote this on his job application: "i want 2 b a counselor because i love 2 work with kids."
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But really....should we be blaming The Internet, or the educational system which is failed in teaching these kids to differentiate between formal and informal writing? I was certainly taught just a few years ago that there are cases where you never use abbreviations, contractions or slang.
 
Originally posted by: Jzero
Originally posted by: kranky
An article in USA Today leads off with a story about a 15-year-old who wrote this on his job application: "i want 2 b a counselor because i love 2 work with kids."
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But really....should we be blaming The Internet, or the educational system which is failed in teaching these kids to differentiate between formal and informal writing? I was certainly taught just a few years ago that there are cases where you never use abbreviations, contractions or slang.
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I dunno... I like my contractions and slang, and see no reason not to use them in writing.
 
Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
Originally posted by: Jzero
Originally posted by: kranky
An article in USA Today leads off with a story about a 15-year-old who wrote this on his job application: "i want 2 b a counselor because i love 2 work with kids."
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But really....should we be blaming The Internet, or the educational system which is failed in teaching these kids to differentiate between formal and informal writing? I was certainly taught just a few years ago that there are cases where you never use abbreviations, contractions or slang.
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I dunno... I like my contractions and slang, and see no reason not to use them in writing.
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But would you use contractions and slang on a job application, term paper, corporate memo, business e-mail to your boss, etc?
 
The lingo now infiltrates every part of youth culture; teen pop star Avril Lavigne spells the title of one of her biggest hits ''Sk8r boi.''
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What about 90% of Prince's catalog? How do you explain that away in light of the fact that it was pre-IM? Hmmmm?
🙂
 
I would hope that most American teens would know when to use chat lingo and when to use proper English.
 
Originally posted by: RossMAN
I would hope that most American teens would know when to use chat lingo and when to use proper English.
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Exactly. The kid mentioned in the article is just a dumbass.

 
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