Actually, the game Tetrinet has been around for a while, however the owners of the Tetris copyright sued sites that were distributing it. Some of us still have a copy of it though.
OK, I'm sitting here with my laptop, running Windows XP and IE 6.0, on the linksys wireless network, in my house, connected to SBC/SNET DSL, in Connecticut, and the website claims that I am trying to access it from outside the U.S. Is anyone else having this problem?
I teach summer school for high school students and SAT prep during the school year, and recently this subject came up in my class. I had already thought about this after several years of observing students who were raised using chat room slang.
My take on it is, yes, it will annoy the current generation of teachers, but some of the words will slip into our language. As the article pointed out some teachers are being pretty lenient about correcting these errors. In only a few short years these kids will become teachers themselves, and they will not even think of internet argot as incorrect.
I agree with one of the opinions expressed in the article that this is just the natural evolution of language. I told my class that this will mark the largest shift in the english language that anyone has seen in the last few hundred years. With abbreviations, lack of capitalization and punctation, simplification of verb forms, and the use of graphical symbols to represent entire words, I predict that in less than thirty years, written english will be radically different. We might as well get used to it now:}
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Actually, the game Tetrinet has been around for a while, however the owners of the Tetris copyright sued sites that were distributing it. Some of us still have a copy of it though.
OK, I'm sitting here with my laptop, running Windows XP and IE 6.0, on the linksys wireless network, in my house, connected to SBC/SNET DSL, in Connecticut, and the website claims that I am trying to access it from outside the U.S. Is anyone else having this problem?
I teach summer school for high school students and SAT prep during the school year, and recently this subject came up in my class. I had already thought about this after several years of observing students who were raised using chat room slang.
My take on it is, yes, it will annoy the current generation of teachers, but some of the words will slip into our language. As the article pointed out some teachers are being pretty lenient about correcting these errors. In only a few short years these kids will become teachers themselves, and they will not even think of internet argot as incorrect.
I agree with one of the opinions expressed in the article that this is just the natural evolution of language. I told my class that this will mark the largest shift in the english language that anyone has seen in the last few hundred years. With abbreviations, lack of capitalization and punctation, simplification of verb forms, and the use of graphical symbols to represent entire words, I predict that in less than thirty years, written english will be radically different. We might as well get used to it now :}