RE: Verbing text

["Guy K. Haas" <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com>]

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On Thu, July 17, 2008 3:20 pm, Sam Beard wrote:

[about a student submitting a paper in txt-speak.]

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> Of Hemstreet, Deborah
> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 3:17 PM
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> Subject: RE: Verbing text
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>  I'm tex - ted out...
>
> Truthfully? I think that the beauty of the English language is falling
> to the wayside and it is becoming increasingly utilitarian... And that a
> lot of the developments in our language are leading to the dumbing down
> of people.... Distancing them from higher literature and
> comprehension....
>
> Sometimes I find what we have to write downright silly.
>
> "Be careful not to drop the glass when removing it from the packageing.
> The glass could break." <DUH>
>
> Messages on paper coffee cups - danger, contains hot liquids, could burn
> when spilled...
>
> And now a verb "to text". Well I guess the verb is a natural development
> of language for "text messages". I suppose we could have "to message" -
> but what is really happening is a lot more than that.
>
> C u l8r - not "see you later"
>
> And we wonder why there are so many educated people out there who can no
> longer read or write!!!
>
> Make sense?
>
> Deborah
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