Auto-correction

What's language?
I think go English, writing essays, pesky grammar rules, and is class
Buds it's sometime much more isn't it?
Language should be a content
To Abel communicate our ideas
But it's create Barrie's to separate us
Low. Middle high social class
It make done inferior
It make smoke want. Orb change their language
To climbs he social ladder and close bet daunting gal
But hen you abandoned your bailed. Ulterior ideas
Tied you your language
Rejecting you're insert I to have an idenor
Haw w works we life in today

First comment is using textese wasn’t a very pleasant experience. Even outside of school the way I type to friends tends to be the same except that I wouldn’t bother capitalizing my i’s or proper nouns or using commas. But other than that it’s very similar, at least in my opinion. Therefore, during my poem writing I decided to type much faster than normal, only glancing at my keyboard once in awhile to obtain some more interesting results.

As I go back to read over my poem I see that most of the ideas can be read. The beginning is pretty clear with a couple of auto corrected words between stanzas one and eight. None of them drastically changed the intended meaning. It was towards the middle, stanza nine that the passage got hard to read and even undecipherable at some points too. For instance, in stanza eleven ‘But hen you abandoned your bailed. Ulterior ideas’ the text is butchered. Though you may get the very basic of it through the words abandoned and ideas it failed to include what I believed to very important, values and culture.

Nowadays using texting slang and atuo-correct is not uncommon. It’s all over facebook, twitter, and the majority of the interweb. Some books are even written in forms of text messaging and we’re still able to read it and decipher the meaning. However I remain firm on my belief that texting and auto-correct is not a effective in communicating ideas as our current standard English. Most of what we read on social networking websites are updates on people’s lives, their current activity or just their mod. I believe it would be safe to say that you don’t usually read about philosophy or literature on sites such as facebook and twitter where the majority of its users use texting slang. Maybe it’s just me but I wouldn’t take anything written in texting language too seriously either. However I am neither saying that texting is an illegitimate language. Texting and auto correct are mainly used to type faster and shorten what can be shortened. While you can definitely use it to discuss philosophy and many great ideas it doesn’t express the importance and the details of it that can be achieved by using Standard English. Though auto-correct is a very convenient tool it over-simplifies ideas and sometimes changes the meaning of words completely, therefore it cannot replace our current standard english.