2008-09-22, 09:21 AM
(This post was last modified: 2008-09-22, 09:30 AM by IcyGreenTea.)
I hate cht spk and 1337. I started using the internet when i was 12(been a decade), and ever since the beginning I had typed in full sentences. I don't think Internet helps with maturity, because you are not actually interacting with the person you are communicating with face to face. You would not know how to judge a person by the way they speak/"act" on the internet, and if internet is the only source of interaction, you may lack the ability of such when you grow up and needing to go into the real world. You can be anyone on the Internet, so can everyone else. If they think I am immature (which happens a lot on MS, and it's pretty funny because they r typn lik tis), but i don't care. People judge you by the way you form sentences and maybe by the way you structure your argument when you debate something. Like a lot of people stated before me, people behave like idiots on the net because they can't do it in real life without dire consequences. I sometimes troll for fun too, it's for when I don't feel like acting too seriously, and I let my inner child come out and play... in the cyber world.
On the flip side, lots of kids are writing in cht speak on their school assignments due to the influence of the internet chatrooms/forums/online games, it is observed everywhere in the world. So it is in a sense, degrading the languages and hindering the learning of the proper form of native language of the child. Chinese for example, have a lot of words that sounds the same but has different characters and has different meanings according to the characters, so to make a post readable in Chinese, you have to choose the appropriate character when you type. Recently I took a look at the biggest Chinese forum online and I observed people not using the appropriate characters for the entire post, in which case could be easily read only if you read each word out aloud, only then it would make sense. I think children should not have free access to the internet at very young age, as it would be harmful.
My 2 cents.
On the flip side, lots of kids are writing in cht speak on their school assignments due to the influence of the internet chatrooms/forums/online games, it is observed everywhere in the world. So it is in a sense, degrading the languages and hindering the learning of the proper form of native language of the child. Chinese for example, have a lot of words that sounds the same but has different characters and has different meanings according to the characters, so to make a post readable in Chinese, you have to choose the appropriate character when you type. Recently I took a look at the biggest Chinese forum online and I observed people not using the appropriate characters for the entire post, in which case could be easily read only if you read each word out aloud, only then it would make sense. I think children should not have free access to the internet at very young age, as it would be harmful.
My 2 cents.