Then, mobile phone came into my life. The use of sms further enhance my netspe
aking through textspeaking. I find it so easy and convenient to type in shorts that I forgot to change it back even in my academics studies. And of course, the note was unreadable and I gave it up in my academic studies.
Frankly, textspeak did affect my academic studies quite greatly at the start when I do not know how to manage the two "language", I have to throw a year of scien
ce notes away due to the excessive use of textspeak. So if others were to debate on whether textspeak affect academic studies, my case will be yes.
Then, I continue to use textspeak even on email no matter with my friends or family.
"den u oso type very long to them la.. so tt they will reply u long long oso.. i mean sure gt things to tok about wan la... rubbish oso can wad.. las time oso everytime tok rubbish rite.. hahah.. u all siao wan leh.. so many email.. lol.... u noe my add anot.. nvm i gif u now.."
Until one day, my dad could not tolerate me anymore. By then, I learnt that if I continue to use textspeak too excessively on my daily life, it will affect me greatly. I have to stop usin
g it in formal situations like emails or formal text messages in order to give others a professional image. That was when I start to manage my textspeaking. The only time I will use textspeak is on chats or sms.
That's interesting to see that you use netspeak even when you are communicating with your father!
ReplyDeleteIndeed, I do agree that when netspeaking has become a habit, it would have some negative effects on our language and we would need some time to correct ourselves. So, netspeak has its own affordances as well as constraints, the important point is how we manage to strike a balance between them.