And In This Corner We Have Texting Essay

In This Corner, We Have Texting, And In This Corner, We Have Writing. But Do We Really? Today, there is a phenomenon that involves nearly every single person on the planet, from teenagers to 40 year olds. This craze sweeping across the world is none other than texting. Texting, the useful tool that allows us to communicate with somebody across the world (or across the room) in an instant. However, a question has arisen about texting: Is texting destroying language and literature as we know it? Although this may seem like a great topic for debate, there is a very simple answer. The great art of texting isn’t killing or even mildly injuring language. Texting has its own rules that may seem similar to literature, but it is very different. In

JK!!!” by John McWhorter, the presenter discusses the effect texting has on writing. McWhorter states that,” Texting is...fingered speech.”(5:25) Throughout the speech, McWhorter says that speaking and writing are completely different, and since texting is fingered speech, texting isn’t killing writing anymore than speaking is killing writing. This is why literature is not in danger. Although they may seem similar, texting and writing are just as different as google classroom and video games. Video games and google classroom both use software to operate, but their uses couldn’t be anymore different. This type of thing can be applied to texting and writing. Letters and words (the word words is used loosely) are the software of literature and texting, but both use the letters and words are used for completely different reasons. There is no real reason to be worried about the death of writing. In fact, even Oxford thinks that texting has some aspects that are contributing to language. The article, “Should that frown be upside down? Emojis make the meaning clear,” by Tracey Lien of the LA Times, discusses the insertion of emojis into the Oxford Dictionary. The author states that,”When the Oxford English Dictionary declared an emoji its 2015 word of the year, people scratched their heads.” This means that Oxford, the poster child of