No Worries

Well, in our generation, texting or text messaging is already one of our habits. It is one of our ways to communicate to others especially in distant places. Compared to letter sending, phone calls, e-mails, facebook chats; texting is more common. Well, maybe because it’s faster than letter sending, cheaper than phone calls, and with less effort than e-mails and facebook chats. For short, it’s more effective compared to other communicating technologies.

Because it is most common used by people, they find ways to make it easier and faster. It is like making some words in short-cut words but still able to understand it like “txt” which means “text”, 2 which means “to” or “too”, and “u” which means “you”. But it’s not only words which they make short-cut, but also the whole sentence. They make the sentence in short-cut but still able to understand the thought of it. Also, last is they use abbreviations like “btw” which means “by the way” and “brb” which means “be right back”.

The question is “do these ways ruin our knowledge in the English language?” I’ll just say my answer and just keep yours. For me, it doesn’t affect my knowledge in the English language. Well, because even though I don’t follow the correct rules of spelling and grammar in or while texting, I still know how to construct my texts correctly. So, a little advice to some texters: don’t forget the correct ways in the English language so you will have no worries that texting will ruin your knowledge in it. ^_^