[Ted talk] Txtng is killing language_Jhon McWhorter

The summary 

The idea is texting spells the decline and fall, or at least writing ability. If this see in another way texting is miraculous thing, a kind of emergent complexity. Writing has certain advantages, when you write, it’s a conscious process because you can look backwards. Speech is much looser, much more telegraphic, it’s very different from writing. So, the languages is speech. As history has gone by the natural for there to be a certain amount of bleed between writing and speech. For example, in this era when someone give the speech to basicly talk like writing.  Someone who talking like writing have to type the text first, if she/he do not make by herself, she/he ask people to write what wanna talk, it’s mean the receiver of writing have to have good receive the message and quickly. Texting is very loose in its structure, no one think about capital letters or punctuation in one text. In the new kind of language there is new structure coming up. For example, in texting a convention which is LOL, now the generally think LOL is “Laughing out load” but if you text now or someone is aware of substrate of texting it’s become different meaning.  It’s  evolved into something that is much subtler. Another example is slash, slash is used in very different way in texting young people today. It’s used to change the scene. The way that John Mcwhorter thinking this day is what we’re seeing is a whole new  way of writing that the young people developing, which their using alongside their ordinary writing skill that mean thei able to do two things.