do you think that texting is corrupting the Filipino (or Tagalog) language? ?
i read a lot of notes, forums, letters whare these people are abbreviating words unnecessarily. if you're manually writing it on paper, or typing it on a PC shouldn't you use the exact spelling. I'm afraid if this goes on, in a few years our children will spell that way and will be the accepted norm already. What do you think?
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It’s not the texting, technically, that’s corrupting the Filipino/Tagalog language. It’s the people who decide to use text speak even in writing a letter or a paper.
As Filipinos, we always have ways with maximizing and innovating new things, thus the text speak was created. Text speak can be used to make the most out of the 160-character space we have in sending text messages. But we should not use it in normal day-to-day activities such as reports, exams, letters or blogs. That’s why it is called TEXT speak because we use it only when we are sending text messages.
It all depends on the people using text speak as their normal way of speaking or writing. If they continue doing so, they will definitely forget the correct spelling of the words.
That’s what I also thought and the same also goes to using "taglish" as a way of conveying thoughts and ideas among people. I will not think otherwise if that scenario goes that way.
I think so…I agree with the first answer..
But I think that it will not succeed as long as the school teachers will not allow students to do such things in class, like answering test papers or writing notes in that manner.
They must also do the same in the taglish thing…use English if you’re using English and use Tagalog, if you’re using Tagalog. Allowing students to speak taglish might also result to a decline in our English proficiency
Kxe uGly nMn kuNg msaNay taU sa gan2 d ba?
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maybe our great great grandparents were as freaked out as much as we are now, had they thought of the idea of men wearing earrings and ladies wearing skimpy skirts. But we managed somehow havent we.. maybe the future children of our future children will be be able to adjust too. Nothing’s constant, and man is said to be highly adaptable to the changes.
I think this phenom is happening not just with Tagalog, but with other languages as well. Textspeak and online chat are really influencing how people communicate nowadays – its the new age slang and it will continue to mutate as long as new portable devices are invented.
Its still within context though, on the mobile phone it would be understandable to use this. But in the real world people should be encourage to stick to the formalities and rules of language rather than be cryptic and misunderstood. I think its a bad habit to get used to textspeak beyond its mobile use, it only encourages kids to be lazy rather than to communicate properly.
No, it is just adding another dimension to the Filipino Language
i agree with you..that’s why i still managed to text the message with correct spelling and no short cuts…and another thing is when i had a call center training my american trainer discussed to us that having short cut on text messages can really affect the grammar…and he suggested not to do so…
I don’t think so. We all know the difference between texting and writing a letter.
text shortcuts is only to make it easier & faster to send messages. most of the emails I get are still complete words and sentences. i believe our youth knows the difference.
What? That’s considered a language? I thought it was just some gutteral sounds thrown out there… pala pala pala … thats all I hear when i here tagalog. So texting wont hurt it at all, my friends.
even in the English Language…
I think so, I am on a secret self-started program to help other students in my school speak and write Filipino correctly, seriously. I try my best to have correct grammar and spelling and not abbreviate words.
i agree to0..
Well, I know that texting is corrupting the English language and I’m sure it’s corrupting many other languages too including Tagalog.
It drives me crazy when I receive resumes or cover letters, even cover letters in email form, that contain "text speak" such as deliberately misspelled words or abbreviations. Those go straight into the garbage. I would never hire someone who could not use proper sentences. I am also afraid that young people are too casual about it and that unless they are taught differently, the use of "text speak" will seriously limit their chances of getting good educations, jobs and other opportunites when they’re older.