I don't text. Neither does Craig. Never have. Never will.
We have a cell phone that we never use. As of right now it doesn't have any time on it (it's a PayAsYouGo style). The last time I remember it having time was back in the winter when we were driving back and forth from the old house to this one and would bring it in case we got stuck in the snow or something. I tried to turn it on this afternoon and the battery was dead. I can't even remember the last time I actually tried to turn it on before today.
The point is: we survive without one. I'll admit, there's been times when we've kicked ourselves for not having one (case and point, today at the dump with the boys) but by and large we never need one. I can't believe how many people I see with those ridiculous BlueTooth gadgets stuck to their ears or a cell phone flipped open while they rifle through their purse or try to change their baby's diaper. It's sickening that so many think that they simply MUST speak to this person at this very moment.
But what appals me moreso than the obsessive cell phone usage is the texting! And not only the simple act of texting, it's the downright terrible grammar and spelling that it seems everyone uses these days!
Since when has it been acceptable to write 'ur', use the number 4 instead of typing 'for', referring to another person as 'u' and all the disgusting short forms like TTYL, LMAO, and ROTFLMAO? I just don't understand the whole thing. I'd be willing to bet that all these teens who obsessively text are terrible English students!
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4 comments:
I would have thought that about my sister who is going to be 15 in two weeks, because of her texting she would be horrible in English boy was I wrong, she is currently getting a high B if not an A and is the spelling and grammar fanatic. It's quite interesting actually since I am dyslexic on just how well she is doing. I admit I do use my cell a fair amount but not to excess we are on a pay as you go plan and right now its mainly to keep me awake on the long bus ride to and from work so I don't miss my stops lol
I completely agree, Michelle! I hate cell phones and hate texting so much. The only person I will text is my husband during the day and that is because he is in meetings most of the day and unable to actually talk on the phone. But I fully type out my words and even punctuate properly, so it takes me about 5 minutes to send each text. I think that I am a 50 year old trapped in a 30 year old's body sometimes!
Funny story - we had to write a paper in college once, and when they all got handed back after they were graded our teacher stood at the front of the room and said "Lisa - nice essay. Except for the fact that you wrote the letter u instead of writing you, and you used the number 4 instead of writing for... good luck finding a job with that." Okay so I added the job part, but the rest is true!!!!
Being the medievalist language dork I am, texting grammar is seriously no big deal. The amount of abbreviations in medieval texts and the messed up grammar of other languages win, a lot.
For instance, prior to the ampersand, it was perfectly reasonable to write "and" as something that looks like a 7 (in Old English). Similarly, squiggles over the letter 't' to fill in the rest of the word, replacing 'Christ' with XP (chi ro), etc. etc. etc.
And then you have Latin which has no punctuation, no capitalization (everything's capitalized) and occasionally refuses to deal with spaces. Plus Latin sentences screw with word order, seemingly for fun. Soyoucanhavealatinsentencethatlookslikethis and this like reads.
Standardization of spelling and grammar are actually pretty recent concepts, and English is notoriously bad about it because of our language history. Going back even 300 years there were like 3 acceptable spellings for every. single. word. You could have 'dog' 'dogge' or 'dogg' in the same text! Hell Chaucer is really bad about that.
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