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kids texting
The kids themselves and their distraction from staying focused in life and also getting very tech savvy at such a young age when it’s totally unnecessary and unsafe for their frumkeit and yiddishkeit.
If your child is in need of a cell phone to stay in touch with parents and others then get them a kosher text free and filtered phone.
It’s not worth the consequences trust me before it’s too late C”V and the innocent child had already started to be affected.
Like anything else, “too much” is under the control of the parents. Computer games, drugs, texting, TV, porn, alcohol, etc. can all have severely adverse consequences for children if parents don’t set limits and enforce them. You can buy phones that don’t allow any texting or that limit the amount of texts so the kids have to “ration” their use over the month. If used to excess, don’t blame the technology, blame the parents.
It appears that texting is causing the ability of people to write (and read, and use) grammar is weakening. This is especially a problem for us since our culture is highly based on written materials. If children don’t develop the competence to use written language, it cuts them off from many aspects of Yiddishkeit. It is also problem that many people tend to spend all day staring at a device, which again clashes with our cultural values which involve more than looking at a smartphone. However these are problems for adults as well as children, but children normally copy their parents (even if parents don’t admit it).
Older people would do well to realize, that exposure to technology is not fully in the parents hands anymore. An adolescent with an internet problem, can easily purchase his own device. Also, a child can be exposed to the internet virtually anywhere in a midsize city like Lakewood. The narrative is still more about self control and purpose, than anything else.
What is wrong with (kids) texting?
Akuperma
Can’t we view english as an evolving language?
Its a fairly nonsensical conglomeration of languages and grammatical exceptions
Is it normal that the words ratio and patio are pronounced so differently?
frankly I think the language should be rewritten for brevity and grammatical simplicity (think new speak from 1984) and if texting accomplishes that , why notTo mentsch 1: In the novel 1984, NewSpeak was a government-promoted language in a totalitarian dictatorship that was intended to limit the ability of citizens to express themselves. Not a good idea for the rest of us.
American English is just the London dialetic of Medieval Jutish plus the great vowel shift with an intermingling of immigrant tongues of the last four hundred years.
To the opening poster: My phone and computer both have a key for the apostrophe. Does yours, or do you not know when to use it?
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