Do you think that constant use of abbreviations while texting messages or sending email is having an adverse effect on your spelling, grammar and punctuation?

There was a time before smartphones were invented that texting was the main form of communication and the number of "texts" you can send per message is limited. Think of the old-fashioned telegram. I think that if you're a kid or someone learning a new language, using abbreviations and shortened versions of words makes you tend to use those and not have the right grammar. It also makes you lazy, but at least it makes you look like a native in that language. I had a classmate during university who writes her notes in shortened form, it was like reading a text message.

I do not do it.

My grammar and punctuation are fine. My spelling, sometimes inspired, sometimes good. But speaking or writing in initials; it's a tough call on that. I have to look a lot of them up to know what they mean. Future generations might look at my writing as primitive. That's because IDIS about TTT when some of the ITIR are not OTW,

They're not affecting my own writing, but the switch to text messaging for work-related communication results in a lot of context-less messages where the writer expects the recipients to know what's being talked about without any introduction. With e-mail there would be a subject line; instant messaging is just a non-stop barrage where you have to be continuously figuring out what the other person's perspective is.

Call me old fashioned. I try not to. But language is a living “matter” that needs to evolve. So I don’t think so. In fact it is good.

WTF ?

ROFLMAO.

Anything is fine as long everyone considers that communication is only successful if B fully understands what A is trying to say.

Absolutely. Kids and many young adults today can not spell. This abbreviation of words goes back to the first Telegrams and later Telex and Twix systems where every second of transmission time needed to be shortened to reduce communications costs. When cellular phones with SMS arrived the convenience of using abbreviations became a habit for many. By the early 90s when PCs became prevalent many people were still abbreviations when there was more no longer any benefit in doing so.

A little, but I make an effort to use few abbreviations unless I know the recipient is aware of them. If I could do my texting and emailing in Victorian English I would.

Abbreviations didn’t start with texting. They started with the printing press in order to use less space on the page. It’s why we write Mr. and Mrs. instead of Mister/Master or Missus/Mistress.

Before texting was a thing, I spent many decades teaching students that ‘wanna’ is not the correct spelling of ‘want to’.

And it’s a pity that LOL was commandeered by Laughing Out Loud and not Lots of Love as LOL is too often used as an insult.

It's certainly having an adverse effect on others' spelling, grammar, and punctuation, but not mine.

How about those lazy "professionals" who send their work e-mails with a 1000 specific abbreviations regarding very important/urgent issues expecting everyone to know the meaning of every one of them, even those outside of their area of expertise?

No, because I’ve always been bad at it anyway

IDK

No. Because I don't text, and I don't use abbreviations in e-mail. Any decline in my textual performance is down to my age and eyesight.

I do it sometimes... but usually unintentionally.

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No, because I have been using proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation for decades.

Mainly because of spell check programs attached to everything, I'm not thinking about the spelling of words, as much as I used to when I was younger. When I have to actually spell out some words, there have been cases (which I'm not willing to ascribe to aging, just yet), where I have that...."wait..how the heck is that spelled?" moment.

Funny that some commneting here against using abrevations and shortening texts are also very vocal when it comes to other matters (mainly realted to Japan), that takes time to change, stagnates or simply does not whant to change.

Quick example... some Japanese companies and public organiations still useing fax machines.

By the way, did you know that the UN and several diplomatic dependencies also keep using FAX?... there is a perfectly good reason for it, you just need to think it though.

Not a native English speaker. I get messages from clients from English speaking using abbreviations I have a veiy hard time understanding what they mean. Especially with Americans when using slang terms. For Japanese when talking to someone from Kanto and they abbreviate places in Tokyo. Abbreviations and slang can be difficult for non native speakers of any language.

Mff dude, ntadall. Sall gd.

So how do you abbreviate in Japanese? Give us some examples!

Question is TLDR.

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Of course, EVERYTHING is Too Long, Did not Read (TLDR) for the distracted, stupidphone-addicted AHD attention-deficit hyperactive-disordered 5-second attention span (being generous) generation walking around glued into their little devices...

I’m ok, but reading the comments on my hometown’s page on Fakbok is embarrassing.

How can people go through life not knowing the difference between ‘their’, ‘there’ and ‘they’re’?!

And ‘should of’ instead of ‘should have’?!

And the complete disregard for any kind of punctuation is just mind blowing.