In informal situations, if you can be understood properly using shortened words and fewer of them, compromising on grammar and syntax in a way that doesn’t compromise the message you want to get across isn’t a bad thing.
Communication is intended to do just that-communicate. Unless you’re an English professor or an inconsolable pedant, this textspeak trend is relatively innocuous. Since emblematic poetry, textspeak has continued to evolve, reshaping and redefining the manner in which we communicate with each other through the written word. In a poem that was published in 1867, Charles C Bombaugh wrote: “I wrote 2 U B4.” Another verse reads: ‘He says he loves U 2 X S,/ U R virtuous and Y’s,’/ In XL NCUXL / All others in his I’s.” And, apparently, at the time, it was emblematic of cleverness. Of course, it went by another name back then: emblematic poetry. Turns out that abbreviating (or butchering) words so that they’re half the size yet still recognisable was happening back in Nietzsche’s day, in the 19th century. And as far as we’re all concerned, it’s here to stay.Īlthough, as mentioned above, textspeak very much is a by-product of this world we live in, there’s evidence of textspeak creeping into linguistic circles long ago, in a time when the word Twitter would have been used only as a reference to a bird tweeting. This technologically manic, hyper-connected world we live in has developed a convenient texting language. The above sentence may not make the least bit of sense as it’s a by-product of the early 140-character Twitter age (or 160-character SMS). If you can’t figure it out, don’t worry there’s nothing to be ashamed of.
HMU with a DM if you need anything! TTYL" Text message acronyms, or textspeak, takes the rules of grammar and syntax to a whole different level.Ĭhances are you’ll be able to read the following sentence without even the slightest of difficulty: Even the most prescriptive snoot will concede that the rules of grammar are (to a certain degree) flexible, the subject of the generation in which they are applied.
The English language is a fluid entity that changes and morphs over time. Ever wonder how often text message acronyms creep into our face-to-face conversation without us realising?
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