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We all think that texting is dangerous for writing ability. It is not true. Actually, texting is miraculous thing.
Basically, language has existed for 150.000 years ago, what is meant by language here is spoken language. Writing came later after that. This distinction is crucial because texting isn’t a written language, it much more closely resembles the kind of language we have had for so many years, spoken language.
Remember that writing has certain advantages because it is something you do consciously and you can look back ward. This is something you cannot do when you speak. Casual speech is quite different, it is looser, telegraphic and less reflective. Texting ignore punctuation and capitalization, but does anyone think about these things when they speak?
Formal oration, a kind of speaking that sound like you’re writing is now a common thing we found. So what about to write like we’re speaking? Now that we have the incredible technology that could support us in doing so, writing like speaking is now possible.
And so, texting these days is that what we're seeing is a whole new way of writing that young people are developing, which they're using alongside their ordinary writing skills, and that means that they're able to do two things. Increasing evidence is that being bilingual is cognitively beneficial. That's also true of being bidialectal. That's certainly true of being bidialectal in terms of your writing. And so texting actually is evidence of a balancing actthat young people are using today, not consciously, of course, but it's an expansion of their linguistic repertoire.