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Originally Posted by crane3
I think literacy got worst not because of the use of ebooks but the texting on cell phones. Just think of all what text got truncated in spelling & the acronyms being used; some people even use the same style as texting in newsgroups. I'm outdated as too much stuff is unreadble or cannot be interpreted by me; even my spelling is getting bad.....
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This 100%! When I got laid off in 2010, I sent myself back to school for some retraining. I had to take an english class and the teacher asked us to write a 3 paragraph story.
She had to state to the class that texting spelling is NOT acceptable to use and that everything had to be spelled out correctly and to make sure to use correct punctuation and paragraphs!
At the end of class I went up to her and asked her if was it really necessary to tell grown people this? She said absolutely, otherwise she would get a whole bunch of papers that were written as texts!
I'm not sure if it's stupidity, or just lazziness.
The mind boggles!
