Quote: “President Theodore Roosevelt issued an edict in 1906 that gave the Government Printing Office a list of 300 words with new spellings: problem cases like artisan, kissed and woe were to be changed to artizan, kist and wo Roosevelt was largely ignored by the G.P.O., and the matter was soon dropped.”
Response: I think that its good that Roosevelt tried to do something about fixing the issue with the words, even though it didn’t happen. There are so many words today that are pronounced the same, yet mean totally different things. Such as bear, bare or there, they’re, and their. If English was not my first language, I feel like it would be very hard to understand the concepts of some words and their meanings because there are so many different spellings. I have a friend from Turkey and he has been in America for four years, and still doesn’t comprehend everything; and I think this is because the pronunciations of some words and their spellings are completely different. Then you get into all of the texting lingo, which makes everything even more confusing. I think that more people, including adults are becoming more aware of what the lingo such as wrud (what are you doing) or lol (laugh out loud) means.
Reference: Shea, A. (2010, January 22). The Keypad Solution. In The New York Times. Retrieved February 5, 2012, from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24FOB-onlanguage-t.html
Response: I think that its good that Roosevelt tried to do something about fixing the issue with the words, even though it didn’t happen. There are so many words today that are pronounced the same, yet mean totally different things. Such as bear, bare or there, they’re, and their. If English was not my first language, I feel like it would be very hard to understand the concepts of some words and their meanings because there are so many different spellings. I have a friend from Turkey and he has been in America for four years, and still doesn’t comprehend everything; and I think this is because the pronunciations of some words and their spellings are completely different. Then you get into all of the texting lingo, which makes everything even more confusing. I think that more people, including adults are becoming more aware of what the lingo such as wrud (what are you doing) or lol (laugh out loud) means.
Reference: Shea, A. (2010, January 22). The Keypad Solution. In The New York Times. Retrieved February 5, 2012, from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24FOB-onlanguage-t.html
Related Resource:
Texting Shaping Today's LanguageCastaneda, E. (2007, July 6). Texting shaping todays's language. In LJWorld.com. Retrieved February 5, 2012, from http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2007/jul/06/texting_shaping_todays_language/
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