TEXTING IS KILLING LANGUAGE. JK!!!

By Jhon McWhorter I have summarized a video by Jhon McWhorter. He speaks about a texting topic. A topic that we often do nowadays, that is texting. But, in this video, he says that texting is killing language. So, what does Jhon mean? by reading this summary, you will know the answer why does he call that way. He opened his speech by saying that we always hear that texting is a scourge. He said that the idea is that texting spells the decline and fall of any kind of serious literacy, or at least writing ability among young people in the United States and the whole world today is not true. Actually, texting is miraculous thing, a kind of emergent complexity that we are seeing happening right now. Basically, if we think about language, it has existed for perhaps 150.000 years, at least 80.000 years and what it arose as is speech. People talked. That’s how we use language most. Writing is something that came along much later. According to traditional estimates, if humanity had existed for 24 hours, then writing only came along at about 11:07 p.m. So first there's speech, and then writing comes along as a kind of artifice. So, texting is fingered speech. We can write the way we talk but it still represents some sort of decline. We see this general bagginess of the structure, the lack of concern with rules and the way that we're used to learning on the blackboard, and so we think that something has gone wrong. It's a very natural sense. But the fact of the matter is that what is going on is a kind of emergent complexity. That's what we're seeing in this fingered speech. And in order to understand it, what we want to see is the way, in this new kind of language, there is new structure coming up. So in closing, he said that if he could go into the future, if he could go into 2033, the first thing he would ask is whether David Simon had done a sequel to "The Wire." he would want to know. And he really would ask that and then he'd want to know actually what was going on on "Downton Abbey." That'd be the second thing. And then the third thing would be, please show me a sheaf of texts written by 16-year-old girls, because he would want to know where this language had developed since our times, and ideally he would then send them back to you and he now so we could examine this linguistic miracle happening right under our noses.

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