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A ātypographical tone of voiceā is one of several emerging patterns in communication that CU Boulder class explores; linguist says the digit
i feel like it says a lot about me that my two all-time favorite fictional characters are Starscream and Jason Todd & thatās been true since high school
Textspeak is Fine
It took me 2-3 years to learn the shorthand I utilize right now and I just want to say something: thereās nothing fucking wrong with textspeak.
We have this weird perception as working professionals that textspeak is informal, and yes, okay, it is. But we, older folk who werenāt raised on texting, say that it rots your brain, that it prevents people from being able to fully form understandable sentences. But itās not true, and the science says itās true, and also I would say that itās not true.
Weāve been using some kind of textspeak for eons. āShorthandā gets a better rap because itās designed for a professional setting, but itās got a lot of the same characteristics as textspeak because both are designed for speed. For starters, the shorthand alphabet is phonetic. So rather than saying something like, āIt might be better for you to go outsideā if I were using shorthand phonetics, I would say something like, āIt mite B beder 4 U to go outside.ā And if I were using textspeak phonetics, it would look like āmite b better 4 u to go outside.ā So thereās already a lot of similarities between textspeak and shorthand, but the similarities donāt end there. For example, letās try āPlease take out the trash, thank you.ā
In shorthand, I would write this as āPls tak out trash thx.ā The only real difference is that because shorthand is so phonetic, I can drop the silent eās which wouldnāt be done in textspeak. But superlative words like ātheā are cut, common words are abbreviated, words with complicated spellings are shortened and spelled phoneticallyā¦
To be honest, knowing textspeak has made my job easier, because I use common text shortcuts to describe more complex ideas. For example: āwhat do.ā Someone who is familiar with the phrase knows that it more or less means āwhat are you going to doā but itās much shorter and much faster.
I, in my work capacity, type ppl- instead of people. Here is a real, actual example of something I wrote, in shorthand, while making $20 an hour to do my job:
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Sumary of wht do: of interest to lab resrs or stkhs. Genotypng, earlier ths wk gentyp cattle, do ODFWs salmon. Srv broden comm + binf serv + growng ml, dl, apprch. Machine vish syst for grass vs wheat (instd of tweezer) bcomp high perf comp needs. Act in res tng wkshps to disseminate knoldge⦠wld be intestng to lok @ esp PDX is dats aswng ?s w/ citzn prog, w/ AI prg, inv spec idetify in rangeland, timstmp upload, infoms models. Synergy there. Wnt to know more @ co-op proj esp in vay area. Mite b god if socio-econimc, thatās specly of VA.
If someone who didnāt know my shorthand shortcuts were to read this, they would think it was absolute nonsense. But I can read it, because I learned a way to type up notes that was quicker than what I could do by writing out full sentences.
And furthermore, I had to turn off my auto-correct settings to even type that nonsense because of course Iāve saved some of the more common abbreviations in Word.
Anyway point being, thereās nothing wrong with people using textspeak in informal situations. If theyāre using it in their resume or research paper⦠thtās a diff prob tht hs nthing to do w/ their ablty 2 form meaningful sntcs.
Language; please donāt die.
Death of a Language
āCMN m8 ur respzibl fr al diz. Dnt act lk yu knw nuttin abt it. ygm. but still lop yuā
Forgive me, even my poor siri couldnāt figure out what the heck this meant.
NETSPEAK, NETSPEAK, NETSPEAK. I know you have read the comment and if you are such a user of that type of language, please donāt send me that shit.
As David Crystal suggested, language change is an inevitable process. The Internet is slowly changing the way we write and speak. Hence, netspeak is a language in itself that is used mainly online. It features the use of emotions, compounding, coinage, backformation and blending of words to create meaning. Most of this language is very informal, with the user often lacking face to face communication. Hence, computer mediated communication can become hyperpersonal.
So the main question arises, how is netspeak encouraging the death of a language?
Netspeak, which is quite similar to textspeak, is encouraging the death of a language because it promotes the use of nonstandard forms of language, such as slang. These are unique to particular social groups, leading to a great amount of audience segregation since not all understand different forms of slang. Also, young people have the freedom to challenge linguistic norms which is the standard form of language. They want to diverse by creating their own language (e.g. netspeak) by being informal TO exclusively appear as cool/gangsters. Not only that, statistics have shown that using netspeak has a negative impact on students academic writing, leading them to use bad grammar, poor punctuations and improper abbreviations. Students are the future of every human population, imagine what a country would look like with such leaders?
Just like the Jean Aitchison language metaphors, language is now slowly catching the infectious disease where young people are specially creating new words that are getting passed on easily due to computer mediated communication having lower transaction costs.YGM MY G. DUNNO?
Therefore, it is stabbing the standard language in the heart and encouraging non standard language. The pure form of language is slowly crumbling apart just like the crumbling castle view.
On the positive side, descriptivists such as John Henry have suggested that netspeak allows language to be more creative as a means of communication.It encourages phatic communication and helps the people to build interpersonal relationships. However, it is also important to note that Ā sometimes context collapse can happen when exchanging messages on group chats for different audiences at the same time.
Language is also a part of an individualās identity, so people must be allowed to express themselves in the same way, right? In the same way, be prepared to get a big fat 0/100 on your exams and rejection in interviews for potential jobs unless youāre looking to do an unskilled job in the future from the way youāre using language BABES.

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Poems from the Victorian era and before which anticipated 21st-century textspeak.
I'm sorry to my friends who have already heard me talk about this; I have some Hot Takes about Joker, and one of them is that his mental illness is uncomfortably relatable. Like yeah demonization of mental illness in media is a real problem, but when he stuffed himself into a fridge I felt that
I'm not even part of the voltron fandom and i still feel ripped off