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  1. Apr 2016
    1. eople seem to have swallowed whole the stories that youngsters use nothing else but abbreviations when they text, such as the reports in 2003 that a teenager had written an essay so full of textspeak that her teacher was unable to understand it.

      some people just get too lazy

    2. he most important finding is that texting does not erode children's ability to read and write

      children are able to realize what the abbreviation stands for, they are aware that it is not the proper form

    3. Children could not be good at texting if they had not already developed considerable literacy awareness. Before you can write and play with abbreviated forms, you need to have a sense of how the sounds of your language relate to the letters. You need to know that there are such things as alternative spellings

      just because kids are using abbreviations or slang words does not mean they do not know the proper language or form of the word

    4. Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate.

      it may not be a natural way to communicate but it can make communicating much easier

  2. Mar 2016
    1. effects on the American idea of Guantánamo,

      have not been informed on these effects

    2. Was there no such debate because we’re not capable of having or demanding one?

      i believe that many people are becoming scared to speak there mind, there are always many consequences to those who do speak there mind.

    3. Why now can we not have a serious national conversation about sacrifice, the inevitability of sacrifice

      we should be informed of everything going on...how can we trust the government if we are not informed with the truth behind whats going on