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    Picture this‚ you have been an English teacher at a local middle school for many years. You recently assigned an essay for the students to complete‚ and you are currently reading over their work. However‚ you begin to feel dismay as you notice the simple mistakes your students make‚ such as not capitalizing proper nouns or using phrases that aren’t actual words in their writing. You mark them down‚ giving them a lower score and move on‚ hoping that the next student lives up to their potential. As

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    Isaiah Lynch Entrepreneurship 11/14/2013 Business Environment If I would bring my product into the US market‚ it would be very successful. The market value of my product will be very good. Social status of my product will be very positive; people will be very active in buying my product because it would be popular among people. My product will also help people save money‚ instead of spending it on batteries and replacement controllers. Features and Benefits My product should be

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    whether texting is actually destroying the English language. Arguments against this statement are varied; some believe it helps the children communicate more effectively. As a child communicating by text can be seen as ‘cool’ i personally believe it’s just a trend that like others will come and go. At the moment the trend of text message language is very popular and with most English citizens owning a mobile it is very widely spread but i doubt people actually use text message language in everyday

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    Is texting Ruining the English Language. [Youth Radio]. Available from: http://www.youthradio.org/news/is-texing-ruining-english-language [accessed 4 June 2010] Author‚ A. N.‚ untitled. [accessed 7 June 2010]. Christopher Dawson‚ 2007. Text messaging and the death of the English language. [Zdnet]. Available from: http://www.zdnet.com/

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    Is English Killing Other Languages? Abstract Is English Killing other languages? As we went on to know and find out what people think about question‚ we learned and observed people’s different opinion‚ rather we should term it as conflicting. Some say we cannot blame the English to be a language killer‚ world is changing and those who couldn’t survive die out

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    Hieu Tran Professor Michael Mannion English 12 A 27 October 2013 Is Texting Ruining The English Language? In this weeks video John McWhorter talks about texting. John studies how language has evolved -- and will evolve -- with social‚ historical and technological developments‚ in addition to studying and writing about race in America. He argues that we always hear texting is a negative decline or fall in serious literature or writing ability. That texting ruins someone’s ability to write or speak

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    The New Texting Language: Bilingual or Lazy? The use of cell phones has taken over this generation’s communication with each other. According to Timothy Barranco‚ he says that in “Today’s society the youth are becoming bilingual without even realizing it.” (Barranco Pg.27) The author analyzes whether the texting language can be considered a second language‚ or is the new language just another way for Americans to diminish the English language. In the article “A Way with Words‚ or Away with Words:

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    The English language is a subject that has arisen as controversial over the last few decades. Many believe it is being slaughtered by the youth in our country while others believe that it is merely evolving to the ever changing world that we live in. Only one thing can be for sure though; it is defiantly something that is worth taking a deeper look at to get some true facts and opinions. In today’s society the English language is viewed as an ever changing piece of communication that was once only

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    Texting is constantly changing our language. It is a relatively new worldwide phenomenon that is an example of language in evolution. The use of abbreviations‚ digits and the general absence of any vowels has changed the way we can communicate with people and how we use the written word by mobile phone.There are critics however such as author John Humphrys who wrote I h8 texting he believes that texting is ruining our language and that it makes people lazy with how they write. By exploring and comparing

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    everything Humphrey says. He merely establishes the main point‚ that text messaging is destroying English. Paragraph Two: DC also summarizes John Sutherland’s paper from 2002 which asserts that texting is an ugly‚ illiterate version of English. Paragraph Three: DC places Humphry‚ Sutherland‚ and others who criticize texting shorthand into a longer history of critics who have opposed new media for using language‚ such as telegraph‚ telephone‚ radio‚ and television. Paragraph Four: Initiates a history

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