'Hey dey..Ssup!
m doin gr8..
Cr4 a coffa ton8 ??
kewl..
C'ya at 8...
G2g, tc!!'
Shortened verbs, sentences sans prepositions, abbreviations used as never before...Get accustomed to the language of young, considered the 'in thing' today. After all, who has the time in this world to inquire if the person on other side is a he or she, an uncle or a kid, a "hi" is much more happening these days.
"The new chat lingo is faster, trendier and a great time saver, when it comes to text chat and on messenger. Moreover, they are in vogue these days," says Sanya Ralhan, Class 10 student.
As the cell phones replace Barbie dolls and toy cars, it seems laptops are what kids demand for on turning 9. The generation Y cannot debar itself from using the language in vogue. "One often faces time and space constraints in message chats, therefore, use of abbreviations and jargons is convenient. Besides it's fun to play with the language as we go on creating more and more smart lingos," says 12-year-old Devika Kapoor.
What's more, the word 'sms' itself has found itself a comfortable place in Oxford dictionary. Seeing the wide usage of such lingo by a large number of people, its impact is very much visible on the written day to day English.
"With every new batch, chat lingo is frequently seen in the answer sheets and assignments, but I have no qualms in accepting the changing trend. I feel language is a dynamic thing and changes to suit the needs of man should be readily acceptable," says S D Triparthy, Professor, I P University.
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Monday, June 18, 2007
HOWZ THT FR A CHNG? MOBILE GRAMMAR GIVES WREN AND MARTIN A RUN FOR ITS MONEY!
If Wren and Martin were alive, they could have squirmed. A high school student who wanted leave wrote to his teacher ''I rqst u 2 grnd me 2 days leave.'' His teacher Sangeetha was shocked. Here was a case of mobile grammar (if it can be called so) spilling into real life and she could not take it.
''I punished him by making him write the letter 50 times,'' the angry lady said.
The hottest market for mobile phones is giving some jarring ringtones also...corrupting grammar in Short Messaging Service (SMS).
SMS is a fad with school and college students who were the only community to make out the exact meaning of the messages.
However, mobile grammar could prove disastrous in examination leading to wrong spelling, puncutation and capitalization.' Sadly, students in many schools and colleges are just SMS'ng in answer sheets leading to a new situation among academic community.
The declining standards of English have already set off a debate among the teaching community and now SMS had only queered the pitch.
Teachers say by ignoring grammar and spellings while typing SMS, students were creating a difficult situation for themselves. For, short forms and acronyms gradually start dominating the language.
The problem begins once youngsters start using the same style while messaging their relatives, colleagues or bosses.
A study by Rama Kumar, a student of the famous Loyola College here, who interviewed 100 respondents, found 95 of them used short forms while sending SMSs.
And, 40 per cent of college and high school students used short forms in academics, too. Ironically, 74 per cent admitted SMS spoiled grammar.
High school and college students have long replaced 'you' with 'u' while taking down notes and in answer sheets. In view of this situation, imagine the plight of the teachers who have to evaluate a paper peppered with 'n', 'ur' and 'r.' ''It unnerves me when I see students using SMS language in their answer scripts,'' says an English professor from Arts and Science College.
Mr S Kumar, a lecturer with Regional Institute of Engineering Science, has seen students resorting to short forms while running out of time to submit their papers. Such language was acceptable as long as it was confined to SMS, he said.
Ms Sangeetha said ''students usually send around 300 messages per day for which they type furiously. It might not be possible for them to type out whole sentences on such a small space.
''But, they should guard against letting SMS style creeping into other forms of writing,'' she said.
Official sources from MOP Vaishnav College for Women claimed some of the students, who incorporated SMS script, got rejected during the campus test.
Despite this, very few students felt it was more important to get the message across than to stick to grammar.
But there is still silver lining to the dark cloud. Some studnets still take the trouble of typing SMS using full sentences and proper grammar.
Rohini, a student of Arts College, hates using short forms while sending an SMS.
''I always type the sentences in full. That has really helped improve my spelling and vocabulary,'' she says.
Howz tht fr a chng?
''I punished him by making him write the letter 50 times,'' the angry lady said.
The hottest market for mobile phones is giving some jarring ringtones also...corrupting grammar in Short Messaging Service (SMS).
SMS is a fad with school and college students who were the only community to make out the exact meaning of the messages.
However, mobile grammar could prove disastrous in examination leading to wrong spelling, puncutation and capitalization.' Sadly, students in many schools and colleges are just SMS'ng in answer sheets leading to a new situation among academic community.
The declining standards of English have already set off a debate among the teaching community and now SMS had only queered the pitch.
Teachers say by ignoring grammar and spellings while typing SMS, students were creating a difficult situation for themselves. For, short forms and acronyms gradually start dominating the language.
The problem begins once youngsters start using the same style while messaging their relatives, colleagues or bosses.
A study by Rama Kumar, a student of the famous Loyola College here, who interviewed 100 respondents, found 95 of them used short forms while sending SMSs.
And, 40 per cent of college and high school students used short forms in academics, too. Ironically, 74 per cent admitted SMS spoiled grammar.
High school and college students have long replaced 'you' with 'u' while taking down notes and in answer sheets. In view of this situation, imagine the plight of the teachers who have to evaluate a paper peppered with 'n', 'ur' and 'r.' ''It unnerves me when I see students using SMS language in their answer scripts,'' says an English professor from Arts and Science College.
Mr S Kumar, a lecturer with Regional Institute of Engineering Science, has seen students resorting to short forms while running out of time to submit their papers. Such language was acceptable as long as it was confined to SMS, he said.
Ms Sangeetha said ''students usually send around 300 messages per day for which they type furiously. It might not be possible for them to type out whole sentences on such a small space.
''But, they should guard against letting SMS style creeping into other forms of writing,'' she said.
Official sources from MOP Vaishnav College for Women claimed some of the students, who incorporated SMS script, got rejected during the campus test.
Despite this, very few students felt it was more important to get the message across than to stick to grammar.
But there is still silver lining to the dark cloud. Some studnets still take the trouble of typing SMS using full sentences and proper grammar.
Rohini, a student of Arts College, hates using short forms while sending an SMS.
''I always type the sentences in full. That has really helped improve my spelling and vocabulary,'' she says.
Howz tht fr a chng?
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