Topical Language Issue - Textese

"Whts wrng wiv a lil bit of cre8tvty"

Not so recently the opinionated journalist John Humphreys made a remark about him absolutely hating the language of texting which we will call Textese. What is Textese? It's what our young society has created, young people have such a large vocabulary and are able to code-switch (the practice of alternating between two or more languages or varieties of language in conversation.) with ease, they do it far better than previous generations which is reason for them not actually writing with this new language form within exam essays, it's pretty intelligent. The myth of children and teenagers using Textese in exams is literally just a myth, a point of view that is losing its momentum in a good way. Prescriptivist views are being changed as 2018 bundles on, the rise of social media has changed language completely. It has changed the way information has been broadcasted, changed the way we recieve news, Twitter for example is one of the quickest news outlets simply for the fact that people are asked "what's happening?" and they will then tell their followers what's going on.

This new language form isn't making us abbreviate more, it's just providing an opportunity for us to be more creative with language which is exactly what linguists want. Only 10% of all text conversations are actually abbreviated language. Creativity is key for language, it makes communication fun which with the addition of emojis (graphology that is used create tone much like phonetic speech.) it's emphasized and made so much greater.

Texting has created ways of which we shorten down our word count but still show the same message. In essence we're saying more with less which is an incredible feat for language and it comes with a large amount of intelligence. To understand Textese you have to understand language which goes to show, our generation is a whole lot smarter than we're made out to be.

Computer Mediated Communication has helped language in immense ways, it's almost hard to catch up with. So what people aren't reading physical dictionaries anymore, there's an app for that anyway and you don't have to buy an updated copy everytime a new word is added. I agree that sometimes the abbreviation and language changes can get a little bit confusing to the extent that you don't have a single clue what your friend Jeff is actually saying to you when he writes "wn2go4awlk". Then again, our minds are powerful enough to fill in the gaps and understand it anyway, smarter people will be able to work it out very quickly. The ones not so smart are those people who absolutely hate  change, the ones not so smart are the people that haven't got a clue what that meant. They're the ones who didn't quite see that it said "Want to go for a walk?" Which the smart people would've probably understood straight away.

Textese is the language revolution that will change English language, for the better? That is yet to be questioned but if it sticks in the direction it's headed then yes, it will make our language so much more emotional and better our communication forever. So go txt ur ppl rn & keep using texts after all, they're making you smarter!