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Started by sbspalding · 11 months ago

Bottom Line: The web and the way we write on it is starting to bleed over into the “real world.” Teens the world over are starting to use informal styles of writing (like they use to send text messages) in more traditionally formal writings.

Not too surprising if you have spent any time on MySpace [...]




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  • Dream Dictionary

    11 months ago

    thanks Steve Spalding for your very informative article.the statical report was new to me.i am agree with your opinion.
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  • Eric

    11 months ago

    Interesting, the new communication tools (texts, emails, IM, and the newest is twitter) make most of our writing informal. It's not necessarily a bad thing, perhaps it even encourages information flow and exchanges of ideas.
    People before Gutenberg probably thinks our writing is so casual too, and that's because paper and ink is so cheap now, and we can easily edit if we don't like what we've just written.
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  • Maggy Young

    11 months ago

    Why restrict the post to teens ? Just about everyone is writing more informally these days and that applies even to non web types. So we have a ' sign of the times ' which also happens to blend in perfectly with web use. While teens may not consider their web communications to be 'writing' as such, before the web, teens mostly did no writing at all outside of schoolwork, so it's a big writing plus - it got people writing about things which never happened before.
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  • cowgirl

    11 months ago

    Good post, I think that the internet is the future. Writing something on paper is the thing of the past. Now you can type it up or text it and get your spelling corrected, save it and file it away all at the same time. Writing almost seems to be pointless.
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  • Warenwirtschaft

    10 months ago

    I think it's because they won't have to watch out for spelling mistakes, and so they find it more easily to write something. But formal writing shouldn't be unattended, but that's what most of the teens do, and so their writing gets worse, and they also use these informal writing in school, because they think that this is formal spelling anyhow, but it isn't. So I really have to agree with your article.
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  • Vacation Rentals

    7 months ago

    Language is constantly evolving, developing or otherwise! Makes you wonder whether grammar and punctuation as we know it be obsolete in the next century.
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