Perhaps the most successful attempt at spelling reform (at
least in America) was wrought by Noah Webster, who managed to forever make
Americans view the British honour and theatre as off-kilter. Some portion of
Webster’s determination to change -our to -or and -re to -er was due to
nationalist fervor; he wanted his countrymen to break free of the orthographic
bonds of their oppressors. He was noticeably less successful in convincing
Americans of the utility of many of his other ideas, like spelling oblique as
obleek, machine as masheen and prove as proov.
Response: LOL, L8r, brb, and btw are all "text lingo". No one is trying to add them to a dictionary! They are short hand responses in text messaging. Some people don't feel like typing a whole word, some phones don't hold a lot of words in a message, and it just sounds cooler perhaps, are all reasons why text messagers use these terms.
I don't feel that this is a big deal. Those who are involved in sending texts back and forth know what the lingo means, and that's all that matters. When kids starting putting lol or brb in an english paper then people can make a big deal about it, but until then, leave it alone. Also according to the NY times article there have been conventions to make aware the situation of using text lingo. Texting conventions? Really?
Related Source: 2012 is all about quick and mobile internet. Our desktop messaging has progressively shortened into millennial jargon, while our handheld text messaging is even more abbreviated to accomodate thumb typing. Yet we still need to pack in meaningful information, courtesy and etiquette into our messages.
Citations:http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/internetglossary/tp/The-Top-Text-Message-Acronyms-of-2011.htm
Shea, S. A.. "The Keypad Solution." The new york times. The New York Times Company, 2010. Web. 5 Feb 2012
Shea, S. A.. "The Keypad Solution." The new york times. The New York Times Company, 2010. Web. 5 Feb 2012.
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