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Text messaging “does serve the purpose of raising consciousness” about the fact “that there are different ways of making people spell.”

After reading the article the keypad solution. I found a quote about text messaging. Alan Mole, the president of the American Literacy Council says "text messaging does serve as the purpose of raising consciousness" about the fact "that there are different ways of making people spell". This quote surprised me, i do not agree with it. I believe there’s only one correct way of spelling not different ways of spelling. Also the new way of spelling in text messaging is due to laziness and inability to spell correctly. Kids now days are changing the way they spell to send faster text messages, it’s not a different way of spelling.  

 Check out this link to the article 5 ways texing is changing English  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-jury/5-ways-texting-is-striker_b_657309.html


Jurry, Paul. "5 Ways Texting Is Ruining Changing English." Huffingtonpost.com. N.p., July 23 2010. Web. 5 Feb 2012. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-jury/5-ways-texting-is-striker_b_657309.html>.

shea, Ammon. "The Keypad Solution ." NYtimes.com. N.p., Jan 22 2010. Web. 5 Feb 2012. <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24FOB-onlanguage-t.html>.