Shud txt spk B allwd in schls?
Julie, 14, Manchester – I would happily watched you being lowered into a tank of acid. Ben, 15, you are wise in the ways of the world.
Mind you, I employ the same language I use for text messages for every type of written communication, on account of how I find ‘txt spk’ deeply unreadable and offensive on the eye, and I use full and correct English in text messages. I will reword, or expand to two or more messages rather than use contractions like “gr8”.
On a similar note, a friend of mine has registered apostrophes.org, but doesn’t seem to have done anything with it yet.
Yes, I’d rather spend an extra minute or so composing my text message rather than use those abbreviations. My worst offence has to be using u (rather than you) and missing off a full stop just to save having to send a second message. It was unavoidable and won’t happen again.
Err, I don’t understand why people use ‘text speak’. My phone has great prediction on it, not a problem, all my text are in *english*. Ben’s comment is excellent. Mind you, I think using text speak should be punishable by death. But then my judgements are usually pretty harsh. DESTROY! DESTROY!
I actually think it does wonders for my powers of communication to learn to express a sentiment in perfect English in 160 characters which would normally take 450. Or, to paraphrase, ‘txt is gr8.’