Texting has now become one of the world's biggest ways of communication as modern technology is continuing to make a big change in this world. The video "Txtng is killing language. JK!!!" by John McWhorter and the article "Texting" by David Crystal are about the 2 linguists talking about texting language AKA textspeak. The two linguists share their theories and opinions on how text speak is impacting language and there are several similarities and differences between their theories on the same topic.
John McWhorter
John McWhorter states that textspeak language is more similar to the way we speak and not the way we write. He feels that textspeak makes sense because the way your use language in text speak is the exact same way you would talk in real life. He talks about the history of language and how speech was the first form of communication to come and writing followed way later after speech as he said if humanity existed for 24 hours then writing would only be created by 11:07 pm. He states how text speak makes sense because people speak how they write so it is logical to write how you speak. He states in text speak that now days texting terms don't mean exactly what there are supposed to mean e.g. LOL means laughing out loud but when we use it we don't refer it to something funny or actually laughing out loud, "Did you do the maths homework?", "Lol no". McWhorter states how textspeak is like fingered language now. McWhorter says that language always evolves and says it doesn't affect language in any ways.
David Crystal
David Crystal shows the he is an avid supporter of textspeak and states that it doesn't affect grammar, spelling and literacy skills among young people. He says its a new medium for the English language, which is great and rare as a new medium for language will barely be created ever. Crystal talks about how there are so many different abbreviations but for the same meaning like good too see you could be said as, GTCY, GTSY, G2SY or G2CY. Crystal feels that language is starting to be more creative through the use of textspeak as it is bringing in expressions and abbreviations that we have never seen before.
Similarities
Both McWhorter and Crystal feel that text speak has a positive effect on our language. Both McWhorter and Crystal do point out some of the flaws and limitations in text speak and how it isn't perfect. They both consider it as a new dialect into this world and how it contributes to the evolution of language.
Differences
McWhorter brings up a lot about the history of language while Crystal does not. McWhorter talks more about how text speak is being used and why it is being used like the way it is, Crystal breaks down textspeak and how certain day to day words and phrases would translate into textspeak and how they would be abbreviated and which letters would be excluded etc. Crystal focused a lot more on the abbreviations while McWhorter doesn't. Crystal does recognize how the spelling and literacy skills of textspeak users are not affected and that they still have excellent grammar and literacy but McWhorter does not bring up on if text speak users grammar, spelling and literacy skills are affected by the use of textspeak.
John McWhorter
John McWhorter states that textspeak language is more similar to the way we speak and not the way we write. He feels that textspeak makes sense because the way your use language in text speak is the exact same way you would talk in real life. He talks about the history of language and how speech was the first form of communication to come and writing followed way later after speech as he said if humanity existed for 24 hours then writing would only be created by 11:07 pm. He states how text speak makes sense because people speak how they write so it is logical to write how you speak. He states in text speak that now days texting terms don't mean exactly what there are supposed to mean e.g. LOL means laughing out loud but when we use it we don't refer it to something funny or actually laughing out loud, "Did you do the maths homework?", "Lol no". McWhorter states how textspeak is like fingered language now. McWhorter says that language always evolves and says it doesn't affect language in any ways.
David Crystal
David Crystal shows the he is an avid supporter of textspeak and states that it doesn't affect grammar, spelling and literacy skills among young people. He says its a new medium for the English language, which is great and rare as a new medium for language will barely be created ever. Crystal talks about how there are so many different abbreviations but for the same meaning like good too see you could be said as, GTCY, GTSY, G2SY or G2CY. Crystal feels that language is starting to be more creative through the use of textspeak as it is bringing in expressions and abbreviations that we have never seen before.
Similarities
Both McWhorter and Crystal feel that text speak has a positive effect on our language. Both McWhorter and Crystal do point out some of the flaws and limitations in text speak and how it isn't perfect. They both consider it as a new dialect into this world and how it contributes to the evolution of language.
Differences
McWhorter brings up a lot about the history of language while Crystal does not. McWhorter talks more about how text speak is being used and why it is being used like the way it is, Crystal breaks down textspeak and how certain day to day words and phrases would translate into textspeak and how they would be abbreviated and which letters would be excluded etc. Crystal focused a lot more on the abbreviations while McWhorter doesn't. Crystal does recognize how the spelling and literacy skills of textspeak users are not affected and that they still have excellent grammar and literacy but McWhorter does not bring up on if text speak users grammar, spelling and literacy skills are affected by the use of textspeak.
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