Texting's Impact on Language
Texting has been an important way of communication for everyone of us, particularly the Filipinos. It is widely used in communicating with our pals and relatives. This is clearly the easiest and cheapest means of communication. But as we let this method interfere with our world, we also let it mangle the English language. Children, teenagers and even adults let this change happen. We, technology users, contribute in our own little ways.
Since texting was popularized, a sudden change occurred. A sudden change which let texting make its own kind of grammar, affecting the knowledge of humans about the English language. There are words shortened, words with numbers and words with changed spellings. I am sure enough that most of us accidentally type shortened words in formal writings because we are used in using those words in texting. I, myself, agrees that texting affected my knowledge about the english language.
Before, I used to be a 'jejemon'. It feels so bad to remember that, but I was unfortunately one of them back then. A jejemon is a person who types words differently with excess letters and numbers. It greatly affected my knowledge especially during making essays and sentences in school before. Hopefully, I was able to quit in being a jejemon, to quit using a changed grammar in texting.
I realized that texting might help in destroying my knowledge and learnings about the English language, but it also depends on the person if he/she will let the grammar of texting overcome his/her knowledge in english language. Luckily, I was able to make a change. I use more proper words in texting than before. Texting obviously paved way for English language to be ruined, but it's always our choice whether we will go on with the change or remain the same for good.
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