Blog Post #1

Unlike most videos assigned to watch by a teacher, John McWorther’s “Txtng is killing language.  JK” was definitely an eye opener. With most school related videos i am fighting to keep my eyes open and pay at least somewhat of attention so i can pass the class but this Ted Talk was much different.

This was finally a video made by someone over the age of 20 actually supporting us and informing the world about how texting is in fact NOT killing language and never has. People have been looking at it all wrong, texts are not supposed to be written as formally as anything you write. Texting is simply speaking  to another person just not face to face, it has the same type of casualty in the tone of everything. Nobody is going to record someones conversation with someone and critique them on the terms or slang they used so why should they in texting?

This video was intriguing with the fact that John McWhorter showed us intercepts from past documentation from centuries ago and all of them pointed out the bad spelling and grammatical incorrectness. I appreciate the fact that this video is the start of bringing to light how just because our youth is evolving and changing with the new found technology given to them it does not necessarily mean we are killing language.