By James Thoelke
Photo courtesy of Google Texting has been around for over a decade now, and it doesn’t look like it’s going anywhere, anytime soon. The language of texting has not improved over the years, though. It has gotten worse. Most people have the common decency to respond to a “Hello” text with something resembling a fully formed thought, but some people apparently didn’t take freshman English in college, or high school. “Nr” is not an adequate response to “What’s going on?” For non-texters, “nr” is the abbreviated version of “nothing really.”
When junior Bradley Nissen was asked what he thought of bad texting he responded with, “I think as long as it’s small, it’s not bad.”
One of the foreign exchange students, Giovanni Orzes, said it is useful sometimes, but is also bad, as people lose spelling and grammar skills.
On the other side of the coin, senior Ciara Olson says abbreviating, is “stupid, and people should spell things out.” Olson also said that she never abbreviates anything.
Orzes and Nissen, however, say they occasionally abbreviate ‘you’ and ‘are’ with the typical ‘u’ and ‘r.’ A strange coincidence is that when asked what the lamest response text they had ever gotten, Nissen, Orzes, and Olson all said “k.” Whatever a person's stance on texting and abbreviated language, it is here to stay, and won’t be going anywhere.
When junior Bradley Nissen was asked what he thought of bad texting he responded with, “I think as long as it’s small, it’s not bad.”
One of the foreign exchange students, Giovanni Orzes, said it is useful sometimes, but is also bad, as people lose spelling and grammar skills.
On the other side of the coin, senior Ciara Olson says abbreviating, is “stupid, and people should spell things out.” Olson also said that she never abbreviates anything.
Orzes and Nissen, however, say they occasionally abbreviate ‘you’ and ‘are’ with the typical ‘u’ and ‘r.’ A strange coincidence is that when asked what the lamest response text they had ever gotten, Nissen, Orzes, and Olson all said “k.” Whatever a person's stance on texting and abbreviated language, it is here to stay, and won’t be going anywhere.
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