About this title: This book takes a long hard look at the text-messaging phenomenon and its effects on literacy, language, and society. Young people who seem to spend much of their time texting sometimes appear unable or unwilling to write much else. Media outrage has ensued. "It is bleak, bald, sad shorthand," writes a commentator in the UK Guardian. "It masks ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 9/1/2008
ISBN-13:9780199544905ISBN:0199544905
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 2008-09-01
ISBN-13:9780199544905ISBN:0199544905
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780199571338ISBN:0199571333
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 256 pages. Does txtng spell the end of literacy? david crystal looks at the evidence, investigating how txtng began, what it is, why it's used, and how it works. txtng: the gr8 db8 is entertaining and instructive: reassuring for parents, illuminating for teenagers, fascinating for everyone. cartoons (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780199571338ISBN:0199571333
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 196x129 mm. (256) does txtng spell the end of literacy? david crystal looks at the evidence, investigating how txtng began, what it is, why it's used, and how it works. txtng: the gr8 db8 is entertaining and instructive: reassuring for parents, illuminating for teenagers, fascinating for everyone. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2008
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780199571338ISBN:0199571333
Description: New. Does txtng spell the end of literacy? David Crystal looks at the evidence, investigating how txtng began, what it is, why it's used, and how it works. Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 is entertaining and instructive: reassuring for parents, illuminating for teenage... read more
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"central premise: txt language is not as unusual nor as widespread as you might think, and it's not about to destroy the english language, kthx. i knew this, but it was interesting to read some statistical backup and linguistic analysis. the most interesting parts of this book were about txt poetics (analysing the results of some txtmsg poetry competitions), and looking at abbreviations in other languages & among bilingual populations. this book also introduced me to vocab for the pairs of words that are created by the same sequence of numbers in predictive text systems: 'textonyms' or 'homonumeric words' (recent favourite: friend txted me that her colleague would make me a list of fairy free eating establishments in nyc).
a favourite poem, that reminded me of another friend:
The wet rustle of rain can dampen today. Your text buoys me above oil-rainbow puddles like a paper boat, so that even soaked to the skin I am grinning.
"Good information, interesting points, but a little drab because of too many statistics. Most of all, it doesn't address (in my opinion) bigger issues like obsession with it, loss of proper communication skills, cheating, etc. I recommend mostly the beginning and ends of chapters."
"I'm not sure what the "the gr8 db8" is. Author David Crystal sets out to dispel media reports that texting promotes the butchering of the English language and is producing teens and young adults who cannot string a coherent sentence together without the use of "textisms." However, these media reports that created this cultural generalization that texters are illiterate vandals are nothing but sensationalized reporting based on a random rumor of a student using texting abbreviations in an essay for school. The student and his/her essay are no where to be found so this story cannot be corroborated. If the information in these reports cannot be supported by evidence, I don't see how you can debate it.
Setting that aside, this book if a wealth of information regarding this instant communication that has pervaded into our culture - at all age levels. Analyzing text messages helped prosecutors by disproving an alibi, which put a killer in prison. The UK has text poetry competitions. A teenager won $25,000 in a texting competition in New York City. Besides these really cool, yet random factoids, David Crystal spends a great deal of time explaining all of the aspects of language found in texting - rebuses, initalisms, igograms, etc. - all of which have been a standard part of people embracing and utilizing language for hundreds of years. He also put a great deal of effort into researching the global texting phenomenon and even compiled textims from 11 other languages.
The most important things I took away from this book are: 1. Teenage texters are not ruining the English language nor are they turning into illiterate vandals with thumb problems. 2. Texting is revolutionizing communication, just as the printing press, telephone, television, Internet, and cell phones did before it."
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