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Is Texting Ruining Your Knowledge In EnglishLanguage?

We all know that we are now living in a very modern world. We are using advanced technology every there and now. Me, I never know someone who haven’t use a phone. Almost everyone here in our industrialized world use texting as a way of communication. Who in the world is not influenced by texting? I, myself, admit that i am fond of texting a lot.

Phones are indeed very helpful gadgets. Some people even use the hyperbole that they cannot live without their phone. But phones do not always have the good side. Some people, those who are very fond of using their phones by texting use this kind of language called jejemon. Jejemon is a way of texting wherein the users shorten their use of words by changing the spelling. An example is ‘skul’ from ‘school’. Another way around is lengthening their words by again changing the spelling. This is an example: ‘ghoodmhowninxs’ from "good morning". Sometime there is a wrong sent message to my phone that I cannot even understand because it was jejemon.

If I would be asked if texting ruined my English language, I would say no. Yes, I do admit that I change the spelling of some words sometimes. But it doesn’t affect neither my verbal nor my writing English language. I believe that texting ruining the English language merely depends on the person using the language. It depends if you yourself will let texting affect your way of speaking or writing. As what they say, the mind controls the body thus control the speaking.