Writing is critical to becoming a good reader. Writing is an essential job skill. Writing is the primary basis upon which one's work, learning, and intellect will be judged in college, in the work place and in the community. Writing equips us with communication and thinking skills.
Who invented writing?
I am extremely proud and grateful for the Mesopotamian' s who invented writing. Could you even imagine how difficult life would be if we could not write? No communication. Imagine drawing little pictures to try and express ourselves instead of writing words.
This is a laughable thought but in ancient times that is exactly what they did.
I don't even know how to interpret the picture above. To me it looks like some kind of warning that Aliens will soon arrive to take over the world ...
In the picture above it seems evident that they did not use any punctuation. This makes it difficult to read. Hence the need for punctuation.
Punctuation did not exist until the printing age. In the 3rd century BC, a librarian named Aristophanes just had enough. He was the chief of staff at the cities' library in Alexandria. Because there were no proper books and they had to read scrolls by the thousands, he was very frustrated to read things like.
readingwithoutanycommasandspacesmakesitdifficulttoread
There were also no differentiation between capital and lowercase letters. So Aristophanes created some rules regarding punctuation. It must have been a journey to read a scroll and to decipher what someone was actually trying to say.
Today punctuation is very much alive. There are certain set rules that makes life so much easier for readers and writers. Here is a fun video to watch about punctuation.
Although grammar, spelling and punctuation are very important tools, not everyone use it correctly. It is a real shame that we use so many abbreviations today. Due to the age of SMS, whats app and I believe complete laziness....people are using emoji's and abbreviations more and more to shorten their messages. It does make it easier I assume...and it is much easier to send someone a smily face instead of typing out the whole word.
Top 10 Text Abbreviations - You might learn something here ROFL!
rofl - Rolling on floor laughing.
stfu - Shut the *freak* up.
lmk - Let me know.
ily - I love you.
gtg - Got to go.
ootd - One of these days.
lmfao -Laughing my freaking *a* off.
nvm - Never mind.
ikr - I know, right.
ofc - Of course
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I believe here [NZ] the end of school exams no longer require the student to even spell the word correctly, and also allow a lot of the abbreviations that the kids use in their phone conversations.
Could this lead to the end of the human race?
In the OLD days, a bloke would try and chat a girl, resulting, if he had been lucky, an increase in mankind.
Now, three kids sit on the same sofa, each with a phone in their hands, and text each other, and never a word is spoken.
End result? no increase in mankind,
Just as well I will shuffle off the stage before it gets too far down that road.
You are so right. I am so irritated with kids in my class using these abbreviations. Apparently spelling is no longer important and they have spellcheck on their computers so why bother to think if they don't have to. I saw a very interesting video the other day. You might find it interesting too. This might take the place of sex as we know it. Here it is:
The result will arrive, complete with phone, ready to repeat the cycle.
It was far more fun doing it the old way, if the male doner of the skin cells is a mechanic and doesn't remove all the grease before donation, what a slippery little thing he will breed, old fashioned ones were slippery enough in the bath imagine a coat of oil on top.
I see you imagined.
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I love the touch of humour with the abbreviations at the end!
It bothers me as a retired teacher that the youth of today don't often write formal English. Their imaginations are being stimulated however!
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