In the article “2b or Not 2b,” David Crystal claims that texting is not killing the language, it is making it more evolve to the generation. He believes that the younger generation is able to show more creativity by using text as a source of communication. He also points out the increasing evidence that show how texting is helping rather than hindering literacy. He points out, one American study shows that less than 20 percent of the text messages that they looked at showed abbreviated forms of any kind and it was even less in Norwegian study. This just goes to show there is this whole stereotype about youngsters always using abbreviations when they are texting. Crystal starts off by looking at the background from when it begin, how in 2001 …show more content…
Crystal goes on to say that though texters break the linguistic rule, they know that they need to be understood. There are many ways to write a text, some texters write long test which contains more information. Some use single letter, number, and symbol to represent a word. This proves that there are more than one way to text and also how one is able to use the method that suits them to get their message across. This shows that we have the ability to be linguistically creative and adapt to the language that suites our …show more content…
And it’s a “spoken” language that is getting richer and more complex by the year” (par. 1). Therefore, since texting is very different from writing a paper for a class, it is promising to say that it would be hard for someone to confuse one with the other. It only proves the critics wrong because when people text, they know that it is only going to be read by the person they are sending it to. On the other hand, when a person is writing an academic paper he knows that it is going to be read by a professor or a teacher for this reason, he would write the paper with an academic