Is the Internet killing the written word?
Do you think that grammar, spelling and the structure of written langauges, in this case English are suffering with the Internet?
Those of us who went to school before Microsoft et al, grew up writing in exercise books with a teacher closely monitoring our mistakes. Today, children seem to be learning bad grammar online with nobody to point out the errors (just look at some of the questions here).
What do you think will happen when they reach university?
Thank you for the comments so far.
My point is really about the QUALITY of the written word.
Everyone accepts that we are writing more since MSN, Y! Answers etc came about, but the quality of writing seems to be declining.
People use slang on purpose; it doesn’t mean they’re any less intelligent. Most just find it quicker and so easier to type in short hand. That doesn’t, however, mean that the people who do choose to do that don’t understand grammatically correct English because, believe it or not, we still do write in text books with teachers pointing out errors =). In fact, I actually read an interesting idea the other day on the Internet, about how if people show they can write and understand slang, it actually shows they’re more intelligent (something to do with being able to convert easily, almost between two different languages. Apparently it challenges the brain, and so is actually useful.)
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