Thursday November 5, 2009

Unwanted influence of sms language

I AM really perturbed and irked by the latest development involving the interference and influence of SMS language in the writing of school students, which I have yet to see at college and university levels.

Probably this is due to the fact that college and university students do not hand in written work. School students are so used to communicating with their friends via SMS that they transfer such language to their writing in school.

If such influence is not checked and corrected, chances are that students who are sitting for major examinations are going to lose many marks, which will affect their grades.

Lately, as I was going through some school examination papers, I noticed that SMS language is frequently used in their writing.

Here are some of the examples:

You: u

I: i

Don’t: don

Want: wan

School: skul

Enough: enuf

Because: bcos

Also: oso

Will: wil

Okay: ok