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Wednesday April 25, 2007
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Paris Hilton is ruining our grammar. Labeled by many as one of the celebrities who originally popularized text messaging as the new "it" communication avenue, Hilton's everyday vernacular (including the frequent use of terms like "That's hottt" and "It's um, like, you know") has now permeated the youth--and we've got the research to prove it!
A new report out of Dublin, Ireland links a slip in the testing performance of 15-year-old students (ranked in the top 10 performers in international literacy standards in 2003) to the rising popularity of text messaging.
The common texting practices of using phonetic spellings, short sentences, simple tenses and limited vocabulary are the main grammatical problems rabid texting can cause, the report says.
Via HardOCP.
Post by Corinne Iozzio
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April 25, 2007 6:07 PM
Argh. Every time I see Paris it makes me a little ill.
Things are getting worse too. I have a rep around my office to being very prolific in my emails, project updates, and communications to the company - everyone else is fine with non-punctuated, one line, all-lowercase email messages. Me? I write email like I'm writing a letter.
And they get on MY case for being well written. :(