Article Review I H8 Txt Msgs How Texting Is Wrecking...

I will analysing two articles one of them being John Humphry’s article â€Å"I h8 txt msgs: how texting is wrecking our language† and David Crystal â€Å"2b or not 2b† analysis of text messages looking at what kind of language do they use and other kind of language devices. The John Humphry article was written in 2007 and published online by the Daily Mail. The article is a critical opinion piece written to aggravate and prove more than inform the reader. The very attention seeking headline shows a very common journalist technique to grab the reader’s attention as well as publishing in the Daily Mail where most readers are middle aged. Whereas David Crystal, (Linguistics Professor) published his article the BBC website in 2008. John Humphrys is portrayed as a well-spoken, educated, individual (Radio, Television Presenter and an Author) who is very worried about the English language. â€Å"Life the love affair with OED† he uses this to express how infatuated by dictionaries he is and how this article shows how hurt he is. The new edition of Oxford English dictionary came out; Humphrys uses humour to describe how the dictionary ‘has fallen victim to fashion’ because of the removal of the â€Å"hyphen† of no fewer than 16,000 words that has â€Å"betrayed† his â€Å"precious† OED. He continues ‘it has happened because we are changing the way we communicate with each other, which means†¦. We no longer have time to reach the hyphen key’ meaning we are becoming very lazy with the new generation of technology.Show MoreRelatedThe Effects of Texting on Literacy: Is It Corrupting Language?3736 Words   |  15 PagesTHE EFFECTS OF TEXTING ON LITERACY: Is it corrupting language? 1.0 INTRODUCTION What’s SMS? SMS first appeared in GSM in about 1991. SMS later appeared in CDMA and TDMA networks. Mobile Origination (MO) - a key feature of SMS, allowing the user to originate SMS messages from the handset - has only became available to non-GSM users in 2000. Ask a kid anywhere in the world, he or she would tell it is form of talking to another person(s), with a cell phone using letters and not words. SMS means