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1. Technology vs. English
Is the Corruption Finally Here?

2. Table of Contents
I. What is Happening?
II. What are These Newfangled Tech
III. Is Texting and Social Networking a
Form of Writing or Speech?
IV. Positive: Encouragement
V. Positive: Speed
VI. Positive: Reading
VII. Positive: Thought
VIII. Negative: Formality
IX. Negative: Youth
X. Negative: Constant Changes
XI. Negative: Negligence of
Grammar
XII. Negative: Education
XIII. Negative: Interpersonal
Relationships
XIV. Is it Destroying the Language?

3. • English on the Internet
and in the mobile
world has changed. What is
• Text lingo and net Happening?
lingo have been With the lives of Americans
having sped up, language
flourishing. has been shortened to
follow the fast-pacing.
• People fear that text
and net lingo has
been interfering with
modern English.

4. • Social Networking: an
online service,
platform, or site that What are These
Newfangled
focuses on facilitating
Tech?
the building of social
networks or social Examples:
Facebook
relations among Google+
people who, for Twitter
example, share Orkut
interests, activities, MyYearBook
LinkedIn
backgrounds, or real- Tagged
life connections. MySpace

5. • Text Messaging: Text
messaging, or texting,
refers to the
exchange of brief
written text messages Features:
between two or more 160 Character Limit
Speedy Receive and Send
mobile phones or Cheap
fixed or portable QWERTY Keyboard
devices over a phone
network.

6. • Instant Messaging
(IM): a form of
communication over
the Internet, that
offers an Examples:
instantaneous AIM
Yahoo IM
transmission of text- MSN Live Messenger
based messages from Meebo
sender to receiver. Trillian
Pidgin

7. Is Texting and
• Characteristics of
Social-
texting and social Networking a
networking: Form of Writing
• Sentences are well- or Speech?
thought before sent. These forms of
communication are closer
• Contains some to writing than to speech. It
can borderline with creative
manner of speech writing, where an obvious
characteristics. tone is set and is less formal
than academic writing.
• Requires formulating
words using a
medium, i.e. tech.

8. • More students are
encouraged
everyday to write Positive:
• Most school-aged Encouragement
children wrote more Positive impacts mostly
occur when a student
than their parents. writes. They are capable of
improving their own quality
• Many children can of writing as they write down
separate formal their own thoughts and
feelings in order to publicize
writing from informal them.
writing.

9. Positive: Speed
• Accomplish More Speed is important in the
average American’s life.
• Suits Busy Lives Without speed, not much
can be accomplished. With
technology, people can
send quick messages and
type faster, saving time for
them.

10. • Several sites offer
visual and sound
accompaniments,
enabling children to
Positive: Reading
maintain interest and
learn more. Plenty of well-written works
lie on the internet. They can
• Important literacy skills influence readers, especially
children, and teach them
like critical thinking skills that are needed for
and reading decent literacy.
comprehension are
gained through surfing
the web.

11. • Word Processors are
faster.
• People can let the
words flow easily onto Positive: Thought
a monitor before With programs such as
Microsoft Word, people can
going back to edit. write a train of thought,
having less disruptions than
when writing on paper.

12. • Language has grown
less formal in terms of
both content and Negative:
syntax. Formality
• Text speak and There has been a decline in
formality in the past 50
Netspeak has years. Casual wear exists
downgraded the often in the workplace, and
greetings are simply by first
English language into name, no matter by whom.
acronyms and broken This also applies to
language.
sentences.

13. • Businesses are
attempting to appeal
to youth with slang,
Netspeak, and texting
lingo. Negative: Youth
• Role-models are Youth are important for any
country, as they lead the
diminishing, as middle- country’s future. They are
aged adults are also highly influenced. With
growing obsessed with America obsessed with
youth, language has taken
youth, and thus follow a spin away from
the language culture sophistication.
involved with younger
generations.

14. • Changes sometimes
happen faster than Negative:
people can Constant
comprehend. Changes
• People have Connotations in words are
changed in the cybernetic
misinterpreted and mobile phone worlds
meanings due to this. everyday. This also applies
to acronyms.

15. • Some word classes
have been eliminated Negative:
in chats in the Negligence of
technological world. Grammar
• As long as the point is Grammar has been
neglected, and it has been
across, not many showing up onto papers.
people care to use
grammar.

16. • More and more
people believe that
education does not
Negative:
necessarily lead to
Education
financial success. This
leads to laziness. Writing scores have been
impacted. Teachers have
• FCATs have shown a found errors related to
Netspeak in essays and
shocking decrease in reports.
writing scores, even
with the changes in
the scoring and
difficulty.

17. • People multitasking is
highly common.
Negative: Weaker
• Focus is split when Interpersonal
people are doing Relationships
more things at once. People are less connected
• With communication, with each other more than
if people converse ever today, despite all of
the connectivity provided
with more than one by tech. This does influence
person through language.
different mediums,
sentences and
thought degrades.

18. • People are abusing
texting and other
communication tools. So is it
• People are growing Destroying the
lethargic with the Language?
language.
It is not destroying the
• It is certainly degrading language, but it is
diverse and aesthetic degrading it. Context is
properties of English. shallow and simple, and it is
appearing in more places.
• As long as some people
cling to “proper”
English, corruption will
not happen anytime
soon.

19. FIN