“She’s a gr8 friend and I spk 2 her veryday,” wrote Maya, studying in Florence Pblic School in RT Nagar at Bngalore, when asked to write an ssay on ‘Your best friend’. Her tacher was horrified: has the web-slanguage of the stdent spilled over from the chat rom to the class room? Maya sys that she was in a hrry to finish the test on tme and hadn’t noticed what she had wrtten. That had been the teacher’s far too: have the youngsters become so sed to writing u instead of yu, so used to ignoring the cpitalizations, so used to omitting the pnctuations and vowels and articles in the cht room that they find nothing odd in thir writing?

Can chatting on the nternet or messaging frequently over the mbile phones impair your language skills? Shkuntala, a teacher in Daffodils English schol in Sanjay Nagar feels there mght be occasional instances, but the stdents get the message when she dducts marks for such lapses. Manjunatha, a lcturer in Adarsha Vidya Sangh College fels that communication and language skills hve actually improved with the advent of the nternet. “Basically the students chat more, be it thrugh the net or email or mbile. So they write more, express mre and somewhere the communication skills mprove and fear of English itself ges away. Everybody can be a wrter and writing doesn’t look formidable nymore,” he says.

Many schools encourage their students to bild their own web pages and wrte the content. The teachers affirmed tht this generated plenty of response frm students. Indeed, as Manjunatha said, wrting and, better still, publishing it is no mre formidable. You can blog, phlog, vlg and podcast, all for free, and get rady, appreciative readers too. You can wrte and publish your own books (-books) at a fraction of the cst of a printed book. Wikipedia, the web ncyclopedia is an example of collaborative wrting by volunteers from all around the wrld and its articles can be dited by anyone with access to the nternet, simply by clicking the edit this page link.

Texting has also spurred a lot of creativity amongst its users. One of the problems with online communication is how to tell whether the writer is serious, kidding, having fun, or getting angry. Emoticons are meant to offset the lack. So you want to say that you were only kidding, you could type :-), or if you are sad or upset you can show it through :-( The two emoticons have noseless variants too, :) and :( , as well as versions depicting somebody wearing glasses, B-) and B-( . New emoticons spring up every day with this ASCII art producing such innovative expressions as (( )):** for hugs and kisses and (::()::), a sign for bandaid, offering help.

Technology has always fascinated youngsters. Most teens are like duck taking to water when it comes to instant and mobile text messaging, where acronyms and slang are used freely. Instant Messaging English or IMISH has three characteristics - the omission of vowels to shorten words, the use of acronyms and the use of homophones such as U in the place of "you". This new, rapid-fire communication over cellular networks has produced its own additions to the staid Concise Oxford Dictionary. BBLR (be back later), GR8 (great), HAND (have a nice day), CUL8R (see you later) and RUOK (are you OK) or the familiar FYI (for your information) and the abbreviation TX for thanks have all been admitted to its hallowed pages. You might ROFL (Rolling-On-Floor-Laughing) or simply LOL (Laughing Out Loud) if you know these two words are legitimate, having found their way into the New Oxford Dictionary of English.

Is the sms-lingo confusing to yu, or are you worried your chldren are taking advantage of your gnorance? parNts whuz kds spk d sms lngo cn go 2 http://www.transl8it.com/cgi-win/index.pl site. Write the confounding message and with the click of a button, you could get plain-vanilla English version. You can also access acronym dictionaries at http://www.noslang.com and www.Teenchatdecoder.com . On the http://www.teenangels.org/ site, you can click on the 'Activate Chat Translator' button. This site is run by responsible teenagers and you can introduce your teenager to this site (if they didn't know already); in fact if you wanted to warn them of cyber-threats, you are bound to think "thank Goodness, I didn't know how to tell them this!"

The article New-Age English was Submitted by Uma Shankari through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Uma Shankari is a Bangalore-based frelance journalist. She is passionate about wrting. She writes regularly on development ssues, health and fitness, yoga/meditation, life and rlationships. Read some her articles on http://www.helium.com/search/search?search_query=Uma +Shankari

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