SMS Text Messaging Creating A Nation of Idiots

[mandy]

The rising popularity of text messaging on mobile phones poses a threat to writing standards among Irish schoolchildren, an education commission says.

The frequency of errors in grammar and punctuation has become a serious concern, the State Examination Commission said in a report after reviewing last year's exam performance by 15-year-olds.

"The emergence of the mobile phone and the rise of text messaging as a popular means of communication would appear to have impacted on standards of writing as evidenced in the responses of candidates," the report said, according to Wednesday's Irish Times. "Text messaging, with its use of phonetic spelling and little or no punctuation, seems to pose a threat to traditional conventions in writing."...

full article: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/04/26/irela...index.html

[sneakymagenta]

The frequency of errors in grammar and punctuation has become a serious concern and a major boinking annoyance to Sneaky

[BellisimaJ.]

[quote author=sneakymagenta link=topic=9945.msg51422#msg51422 date=1177893706]

The frequency of errors in grammar and punctuation has become a serious concern and a major boinking annoyance to Sneaky

[/quote]



DITTO!!!

[mandy]

A related article:

An over reliance on technology is leading to a dumbing down of the nation’s brain power, according a study published today.

In a society flooded with mobile phones, Blackberry devices and computers of various shapes and sizes, a quarter of all Britons do not know their own landline number while as little as a third can recall more than three birthdays of their immediate family...

“People have more to remember these days, and they are relying on technology for their memory.

“But the less you use of your memory, the poorer it becomes. This may be reflected in the survey findings which show that the over 50s who grew up committing more to memory report better performance in many areas than those under 30 who are heavily reliant on technology to act as their day to day aide memoir.”...

full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jht...ain113.xml

[freebieman]

It is true that the grammar sucks. It is OK to leave an obvious word off here and there...but come on people