MT @DAMONALBARN, #SOCMED #EDITOR SEP. 24, #2014
RT #RALEIGH, #NC — ICYMI, #Twitter language, or #Twittertalk, d way #teenz & #tweenz talk on d #popular #socmed network, is ruining d way ppl communicate & harming thr ablties 2 rite clrly & concisely & cld b harming futr #employment oprtuntees, sez a #comm prof @MeredithCollege. #NoJobsNoPeace
“D way deez young ppl send info n 140 characters or < is abso. affctng thr brains dvlopmnt & d way they interact w/ d #English lang & w/ ea other thru dat medium,” sed @DocGilbert, Eng prof @MeredithCollege. #tenure
Her cncrns dont end there. “Deez kids get used 2 communicating dis way. Its not jst writing eithr. I had a #student #lastwk tell me his paper would b late. He said – verbally – ‘@DocGilbert ppr gon b late 🙁 ‘ I have no idea how he even got that frowny face across orally.” #irony
@DocGilbert isnt d only 1 who worries abt d futr of d King’s #English w/ advent of #socmed. bit.ly/1fLWvn9 @ElleMcCrodden, linguistix prof @HollinsU, blvs #Twittertalk can actually bcm an addiction. #heroinkills “Bc of their FOMO, these yng folks – d #tweens to 20-smthgs – can bcm litrly #attwicted. IDK whats worse, having them not speak @ all, which was d fear 10 yrs ago wn #gaming rly came on d scene, or hvng them talk like this. They actlly say ‘hashtag’ in nrml speech.” #SpecialEd
@ElleMcCrodden has bn @HollinsU 4 23 years & has seen a marked decline n d way #students relate 2 ea other n that time. #OldPeopleProblems “D only time these kids rlly have 1-on-1 convos – bc they’re crtnly not f2f, which is d btr way 4 ppl 2 talk – is when they have these damn ‘#friendapaloozas’ & folw evry damn person on that stupid #socmed site.”
D trend seems 2b spilling n2 prfsnl writing worries@ElleMcCrodden. “Prfsnl, newspaper-qual wrtng has gon out d wndw,” she sighs. #archaic “Its a shame. Wrtng gets acros ideas. #Hyperlinks, #hashtags, #emoticons & goofy abbrevs gt us nowhere.” >:( youtube.com/watch?v=5fGQLHKx-Y0&sns=tw
BFN ;0)
#AnotherIdioticStoryOnUngrammared