http://video.aol.com/video-detail/a-brave-new-classroom-texting-a-new-language/899779093/?icid=VIDURVNWS08
Opening Questions:
What makes a word a word?
Abbreviation... is this okay?
What is proper?
This short video discusses texting lingo and the way that it is seeping into the spoken language of children and teenagers.
Teachers current stance: Keep it out of the printed word with "preventative education."
Dictionary acceptance: If dictionaries accept a word as being a word, it is often because of the frequency of its use in society. Does that make it a word?
So thus, humans are in charge of language.
But, in all fairness, haven't we always been?
*If teenagers and children are in charge of our rapidly changing language, could this potentially negate:
-Grammar rules
-The teaching of word structures as a fundamental means of teaching reading
-Phonics Rules
-Formal vs. informal language.
You be the judge. Just keep in mind that your opinion may be just as valid as the 13 year old (or even 10 year old, as cell phones reach younger and younger students) texting on her blackberry.
*Follow up note: "texting" is now in the dictionary, but "blackberry" remains listed as only a fruit/plant.
Picture source: http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/g-090123-hlt-kids-phone-2p.widec.jpg
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