While reading the article Are Digital Media Changing Language I was surprised by the quote "quantitative analysis of instant messaging conversations and text messages revel that abbreviations, acronyms, and even misspellings are comparatively infrequent, at least among college age students"
This took me by surprise just because of my personal experience with college age students and their messaging habits. I do not believe that digital media is destroying the ability of young people to construct sentences, because it has not yet affected the way we speak when we interact face to face. Not only is it not affecting our language skills in a harmful way, but the University of British Columbia offers a course that incorporates digital media into modern literacy.
Interesting that a course in digital media in modern literacy is being offered!
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