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VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) - March 7, 2011 (WPVI) -- O-M-G! Smiley faces don't count!
Teachers are seeing text slang show up in school work.
Students used to texting on their smart phones are using abbreviations and other shortcuts in their assignments.
Jeni McAnally teaches English at Columbia River High School in Washington state.
She says L-O-L, for laugh out loud, doesn't belong in an essay.
Ben Lyons, a senior at Heritage High, agrees.
He tells The Columbian newspaper students use the text slang because they're lazy.
I don't necessarily think it's only a matter of laziness, I think it's a lack of general communication skills.
Viewing some of the posts on this board, it appears that proper spelling and grammar have gone out the window as well.
Teachers are seeing text slang show up in school work.
Students used to texting on their smart phones are using abbreviations and other shortcuts in their assignments.
Jeni McAnally teaches English at Columbia River High School in Washington state.
She says L-O-L, for laugh out loud, doesn't belong in an essay.
Ben Lyons, a senior at Heritage High, agrees.
He tells The Columbian newspaper students use the text slang because they're lazy.
I don't necessarily think it's only a matter of laziness, I think it's a lack of general communication skills.
Viewing some of the posts on this board, it appears that proper spelling and grammar have gone out the window as well.
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Ever read something in old english dialect? i don't know half of the shit they're saying.
Please don't tell me you consider LOL, LMAO, BRB etc. as communication evolving.
It concerns me because effective communication is necessary in the work force.
My one nephew is in his second year of law school. His sister was just awarded the Founder's Award at Penn State for academic excellence. Their cousins; however, my 10 year old nephew and 13 year old niece, don't have any sense of the importance of being able to express their thoughts coherently without the use of a phone text keyboard.
That concerns me.
TTYL.
LOL
people suck.
When i get on the train to go home at night, i'm the only one watching music video's, the other 100 or so people in my train car whip out their blackberry's and text the whole way home, working professionals and i'm betting they are all using those same shortcuts.
It's not just high school kids that do this.The youngest person in the team I manage is 30,oldest 52 yet I have to pull nearly all of them up for abbreviation in reports they write.
These reports end up becoming part of legal decision made about children's care needs,they need to be written well not with @
It truly pisses me of,it's just sheer laziness and definitely poor communication skills.
and when i text, i type everything out.....although i do admit, my capitalization and punctuation and spelling could use some work
but those people are responding to texts, yes? that i have no problem with but if those people are using those shortcuts in business emails/reports/documents then they need to be fired...there is NO excuse for poor grammar unless you never went to school...in that case, how did they get that job?
Its true. I've been impressed with your spelling lately.
I'm not surprised that text slang is showing up in student work, but I think that is something that always happens. I remember a lot of red ink on my papers due to copious amounts of "like" and "whatever".
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As long as you know the difference, I have no problem with it.
I'm just concerned that it's going to affect their ability to communicate in the real world.
Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
but there should have been a comma between "off" and "spellcheck"
I've yet to see "text slang" at work, but simple grammar mistakes in work emails do piss me off.
There / Their / They're - 3 words w/ 3 different meanings
Your / You're - 2 words w/ 2 different meanings
Cannot - it's one word! (I see "can not" 10 times a day)
DEGENERATE FUK
This place is dead
"THERE ARE NO CLIQUES, ONLY THOSE WHO DON'T JOIN THE FUN" - Empty circa 2015
"Kfsbho&$thncds" - F Me In the Brain - circa 2015
As someone who's not too old yet (37), and as a person whose livelihood depends on selecting the right talent, the next generation of employees, quite literally, scares the hell out of me. I had a mother attend a career fair with her daughter last fall, and I overheard the mother doing the majority of the talking with a company rep at the table next to mine.
shirley, you can not be serious? both are acceptable, as is can't
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cannot
Touché....and don't call me Shirley!
I'll file this under "you learn something everyday". I blame it on my teachers, or "can not" became acceptable in the past 19 years.
DEGENERATE FUK
This place is dead
"THERE ARE NO CLIQUES, ONLY THOSE WHO DON'T JOIN THE FUN" - Empty circa 2015
"Kfsbho&$thncds" - F Me In the Brain - circa 2015
i'll blame your teaches, because mine taught it as acceptable and that was > 20 years ago
Assuming it was the daughter going for the job, I'm betting she didn't get any real consideration.