Technology and Language Use
- Online Speak- the informal communication style that marks electronic communicatio
- It is important to recogonize online speak is not to be used in formal settings. For example when writing a paper you wouldn't want to write " She went to him b/c she didn't want to be w/o love, he said ttyl and drove away". Not only does this go against A Call for Clarity but it creates a whole sublanguage that many people may not understand
- This form of communication and language as also moved to cell phone texting use
- Netiquette or rules of the internet continue to evolve and things like bloging and aim have turned into a trend that even the buisness world has begun to use
- Educators belive that their should be a line between formal and conversational writing.
