In writing text messages, QT1BD means "have a nice day." These groups of letters, which appear the name of an undercover agent, desperate to those who denounce the "impoverishment of language." Indeed, the words of the text messages are manipulated so that the awkward task of typing on a miniature keyboard be as short as possible. If I had to write a text message, I would use any abbreviations and I only take care that they were successfully translated by my recipient. The technology requires a form of writing and, if you write text messages must be short. It writes down the street, in the subway or talking to your neighbor. There are school essays, but primary forms of communication.
Once installed, the need to type text messages without stopping, you have to type in the least amount of letters. A text message is like someone is separated sandwich and eat in a hurry: it obeys the rules of culinary art, but hunger. Someone might say it's better not to swallow stopped two slices of bologna, but to prepare a salad with many ingredients, lay the table, put the radio and eating respecting the rules of good manners. But at the same time accepting the possibility of writing a text message on two lines or half salami to nibble while we review the day's agenda, are discarded spelling courtesy and cuisine.
wonder why they send millions of text messages lead us to another question that can be summarized in a formula: the desire for instant connectivity. One of the manifestations of contemporary mysticism and therefore bypasses the cuesti'n shorthand messages, but by the intensity of use.
Caring about grammar rules from messages Text is as though the cuisine will be wiped out by people who eat a sandwich without stopping to think carefully what you eat and whether to eat it that have been chewing. The proliferation of fastfood not ordered into bankruptcy to the restaurants, or remains, or the cuisine, or the incenciones-fusion cuisine. By contrast, in almost every city in the world, fast food chains and all forms of refined gourmet tilinguería or head to head are the same race for promotion to infinity. Differ in age, and not always.
Emoticons inserted in the emails I seem childish. But not occur to me elemntalidad accountable for greater expression of both users. Are signs whose causes are commonplace elsewhere. And the same goes for text messages: if millions of people find in them a kind of antidote to the worst of the destinations that would be the low connectivity, the cultural heart of the matter is the shorthand of abbreviations and formulas with which they are written.
Those alarmed at the text messages, consider that in other conditions of writing, users (especially young) write just as jerky. If this is true, the responsibility is on the screens of cell phones, but in the institutions that are responsible for spreading the forms of a more elaborate and complex writing. Starting school. If everyday teenagers texting producers had to write an entire paragraph, without abbreviations, composed of long sentences with subordinate clauses such that begin with words like "although", "although" or "although" if they had to use verbs in the subjunctive and potential, if asked that this paragraph include, as an exercise, at least three words search beyond the limits of their own vocabulary, we could rest easy because the text messages would not a threat, but the most radically elementary an exclamation or a question.
Beatriz Sarlo
Revista Viva Clarin, May 2, 2006
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