Comments on: The end of grammar as we know it http://mightyredpen.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/the-end-of-grammar-as-we-know-it/ Grammar, word nerds, and the editorial way. Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:43:57 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: goofy http://mightyredpen.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/the-end-of-grammar-as-we-know-it/#comment-5142 goofy Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:39:07 +0000 http://mightyredpen.wordpress.com/?p=886#comment-5142 A sensible article on texting by David Crystal: http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/referenceandlanguages/story/0,,2289259,00.html "Children could not be good at texting if they had not already developed considerable literacy awareness. Before you can write and play with abbreviated forms, you need to have a sense of how the sounds of your language relate to the letters. You need to know that there are such things as alternative spellings. If you are aware that your texting behaviour is different, you must have already intuited that there is such a thing as a standard..." A sensible article on texting by David Crystal:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/referenceandlanguages/story/0,,2289259,00.html

“Children could not be good at texting if they had not already developed considerable literacy awareness. Before you can write and play with abbreviated forms, you need to have a sense of how the sounds of your language relate to the letters. You need to know that there are such things as alternative spellings. If you are aware that your texting behaviour is different, you must have already intuited that there is such a thing as a standard…”

]]> By: goofy http://mightyredpen.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/the-end-of-grammar-as-we-know-it/#comment-5140 goofy Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:23:29 +0000 http://mightyredpen.wordpress.com/?p=886#comment-5140 let's try that again... One trouble with the claim that text messaging or kids today are ruining grammar is that it assumes we know what an unruined language looks like, what a ruined language looks like, and how to measure ruination. It assumes we know a lot more about language than we currently do. let’s try that again…
One trouble with the claim that text messaging or kids today are ruining grammar is that it assumes we know what an unruined language looks like, what a ruined language looks like, and how to measure ruination. It assumes we know a lot more about language than we currently do.

]]> By: goofy http://mightyredpen.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/the-end-of-grammar-as-we-know-it/#comment-5139 goofy Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:22:30 +0000 http://mightyredpen.wordpress.com/?p=886#comment-5139 One trouble with the claim that text messaging or kids today are ruining grammar is that no evidence it assumes we know what an unruined language looks like, what a ruined language looks like, and how to measure ruination. It assumes we know a lot more about language than we currently do. One trouble with the claim that text messaging or kids today are ruining grammar is that no evidence it assumes we know what an unruined language looks like, what a ruined language looks like, and how to measure ruination. It assumes we know a lot more about language than we currently do.

]]> By: tk. http://mightyredpen.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/the-end-of-grammar-as-we-know-it/#comment-5138 tk. Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:59:57 +0000 http://mightyredpen.wordpress.com/?p=886#comment-5138 A reply reading "that was funny, you made me laugh" doesn't really get the feeling across as much as a well-placed "LOL", does it? A reply reading “that was funny, you made me laugh” doesn’t really get the feeling across as much as a well-placed “LOL”, does it?

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