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Quoting incişka: Quoting libralady: I can tell you using text talk (not abbreviations as they are different and recognised in English) causes a problem in business as youngsters used to using text talk cannot communicate in letter, emails properly and professionaly. |
A youngster who is responsible enough for his/her learning would know the difference between two. It depends on the purpose of their learning. If they learn English just because they want to make friends (most probably girlfriends) dont expect any professional or academic writing from them! And I dont think they would even want to write something professional or academic! No problems for me! I can write both in formal and informal style  Learning a foreign language and using is fun, but strictly sticking to the rules may make it boring! It's better to learn 'good' language first, but then talk it/write the way you like |
Well, I agree in parts and disagree in others... Language should be learnt completely and with all its rules before even try to use it in the 'text message way', yes everyone is resposible for the use of the language and if someone wants to use it in its non-regular way because they are young or whatever reason, they can. But i have to say short ways of words can be confusing for people that wants to improve or learn, and although they have to learn it to understand it, bad use of the language contributes to its own deformation, not evolution, but deformation... Anyway we are in a learn-a-language website we should try our best to learn the correct form of it, and leave short-chat to cell text messaging and other ways of communication... I have to end up saying, yes i dont like short words neither in english nor turkish... I prefer the correct way of words and sentences...
 
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Maybe, according to thehansome, I did not fulfill the necessary requirements to be nicely welcomed 
... i guess now im curious about the famous picture of "hairyhandsome" 
even reading Brothers Grimm or Grin posts will not lower it 
i hope is not a sign of stalking hahaha