text language

The lazy spelling forms is damaging to the linguistic development to teenagers. Young
generations spending a lot of time texting with their friends tend to use the text language unconsciously in their formal paper. They are used to abbreviate the words in writing because they are able to take a note faster than using the whole words. For example, they use single letters which can replace the word in a sentence such as ‘be’ becomes ‘b’, ‘are’ becomes ‘r’, ‘you’ becomes ‘u’, and ‘why’ becomes ‘y’.

In addition, they use single digits which can replace the word such as ‘to’ becomes ‘2’, ‘for’ becomes ‘4’, and ‘ate’ becomes ‘8’. Thus, they send a text like “where r u?” instead of ‘Where are you?’, and “r u gonna b there?” instead of “Are you going to be there?” Using single letters and digits is not hard to read in text messaging due to the same pronunciation. However, as the young generations do not recognize the full letters of words, the text messaging is leading to the poor spelling. Getting used to using text message leads to grammartical problem on their language.