Txt Speak

GENERAL OVERVIEW

• Text speak is type that has been altered for ease and speed of typing and often removes vowels

The standard form of English type that is found in text messages. Other common places of text speak are social media sites and e-mail.

KEY POINTS

• It is infectious and is rapidly changing our language, for better or worse.

Parents don't understand and most teens are not able to identify the meaning of terms for example "bae" and "fleek."

Is often a meaningless term that is used in specific areas or groups of people differently.

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• The group of people most commonly associated with text speak are teenagers

It gets very controlling and changes the way you write or speak

Text speak currently dominates the lives of many young adults and children and alters their speaking and writing proficiency.

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• More and more people start to use it and it affects the way they write and talk

Article Info

• Title- Yeesh! Scrabble's Not What It Wuz. Now Text Speak and Street Slang Score Points as Game Expands Its Dictionary.
• Date- Associated Newspapers,21 May 2015. Web 21 May 2015

The makers of the popular word spelling game Scrabble added slang and text speak words to the scoring dictionary.

It talks about how almost everyone and everything is adjusting to text speak and considering it part of the English Language and that is our main focus, to find out why text speak is taking over.

Scrabble has decided to add text speak words (such as hashtag, obvs, and more)

What to learn.

That our language is changing and the media and large wold contributors (such as celebrities and companies) are pushing that change into everyone's life.

We should keep in mind that although words such as “bruh” and “lolz” are fun to say they can be very effective at changing the way we do things such as write, read, and communicate.

Text speak can make a person’s image deteriorate at an intellectual level.