Explain How Text Messaging Is Ruining English Language

Critics say text messaging is ruining the English language and creating illiterate people that do not have the ability to write reasonably. John Humphrys believes that people who text message “are destroying language: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped” (Humphrys). Humphrys displays his ignorance of what text messaging does to language. But in reality, texting is not ruining our language as people like Humphrys argue it is. As David Crystal writes in his article “2b or Not 2b,” there is evidence that shows recurrent texters have a better grip on language than those that do not text as often.

Modification in language is not preventable for it is continually changing to remain modern. If language did not change, it would be become a useless communication source. There are constantly critics, such as Humphrys, who do not agree with this. People have

“A recent study by experts at Coventry University in the UK has found strong positive links between the use of text language and the skills underlying success in Standard English in pre-teenage children” (Crystal). Teens score higher on their tests due to abbreviating in text messages. “Also, interestingly enough, the age at which they received their first phone correlates with their aptitude test grades: the younger the child received the phone, the higher the grade” (Crystal). “the children who were the best at using textisms were also found to be the better spellers and writers (childres, texts, and English,). Text messaging is potentially used to teach language, instead of ruin language. The reason the English language is so important and effective is the fact that is consistently changing easily adapted to. Humphrys demonstrates that “texting and netspeak are effectively different languages” (humprys). However, Humphrys is