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Infographic: Is texting killing our writing skills?

26 Feb, 2013 Great Resources Miscellaneous Permalink

In this day and age, we do not call people anymore. We just text them.

And when we text, we shorten words. Communication is limited to a minimum.

Just like grammar.  A dying institution, it seems — especially among children, teens and young adults.

Here is an interesting infographic on the topic created by OnlineCollege.org.

Does Texting Hurt Your Grammar?

Source: OnlineCollege.org

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Cendrine Marrouat is a journalist, blogger, content curator, author, and workshop facilitator located in Canada. She is the founder of two social media blogs: Social Media Slant and Creative Ramblings. On March 6, 2012, she released The Little Big eBook on Blogging: 40 Traffic Generation Tips, a comprehensive resource that provides bloggers of all levels with essential information and precise guidance to attract quality traffic to their blogs. She is currently working on an eBook on social media strategies that should be released before the end of 2013.
  • http://inspiretothrive.com Lisa

    Cendrine, I LOVE This infograph! The grahpics and the points are just marvelous! I pinned it and shared it before commenting. You are correct about writing skills – NOT the same with texting. Sometimes I find myself emailing like a text and then realize what I’ve done before I hit send.

    • http://www.cendrinemarrouat.com Cendrine Marrouat

      Hello Lisa,

      I’m glad you like the infographic. I think it’s awesome too.

      I catch myself doing the same as you sometimes. It’s funny how the brain works, isn’t it?

  • http://www.dentalimplants-uk.co.uk/ Joe Hart

    Can’t agree more with this..I’ve been a regular text junkie for several years now.. i put an end to the habit recently when i realized that my texting language was giving a huge blow to my grammar..

  • http://www.zenspill.com/ Mark Trueman

    Hey Cendrine,

    I think you just bottled up the internet and put it up in an infographic, it has everything from text talk to lol cats.

    Very interesting to read and informative too. Awesome post :)

    - Mark T.

    • http://www.cendrinemarrouat.com Cendrine Marrouat

      Hello Mark,

      Thank you for stopping by. I didn’t create the infographic, so I cannot take credit for it. :-)

      • http://www.zenspill.com/ Mark Trueman

        Oh, sorry about that. Its still an awesome share :)

        • http://www.cendrinemarrouat.com Cendrine Marrouat

          No need to apologize. I wish I was that skilled, though. ;-)

        • http://www.cendrinemarrouat.com Cendrine Marrouat

          No need to apologize. I just wish I was able to create such an awesome infographic myself!

  • http://www.jaipurrugs.com/ Abhishek

    That’s an interesting infographic. I remember when I used to write for my college exams I many a times tend to use the short forms..It so much becomes a part of our daily lives as most of the time we are texting people. I completely agree that proper grammar skills are very important, afterall language is not only about texting in short forms..

    • http://www.cendrinemarrouat.com Cendrine Marrouat

      Thank you for stopping by, Abhishek!

  • http://yourfantasticbackyard.com.au/ Richa

    Loved this infographic..I am very much addicted to texting and too used to using short form of words which does effect when I am writing a mail or a business letter. Everything has its pros and cons:P…