Internet Grammar

[Unregistered]

I find the grammar on the internet to be troubling. Is there a code of internet grammar?

I also wonder how other teachers feel about this topic.

Feel free to voice your honest opinions. I'd like to hear from all sides.

Thanks,

Brandi

[Unregistered]

Agreed. We need to clean up our grammar and spelling. It is hard to take someone seriously once they butcher the English language.

[dhom]

Students write really differently on Xanga and MySpace than they do for their English essays in class. I can't help wondering that their online habits spill over, though. I tell my middle school students that I grade their science papers based on the grammar and punctuation rules they learned in elementary school (yes, I read their English books). Many of them don't remember those rules. :P

[Unregistered]

Hi everyone. I have used Internet Lingo in the past. It didn't affect the grammar used for my schoolwork. Although, I stopped in fear that it would. I am the student assistant of a Language Arts teacher, and have noticed student's accidentally using Internet lingo in their schoolwork. That's why I believe people should try to always speak and write correctly.

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[dhom]

Yes, I've also noticed that Internet lingo sometimes spills over into students' work. This isn't the case with most of my own students, though; they just have poor spelling, grammar, and punctuation. I think the effect of iNterNet linGo iS noT dIRecT mainley BcuZ There not pRacTICing GooD riTng haBiTs n the tHinGs thEy caRe aBouT mostLY.

What I've seen at my school is not that most of them use Internet lingo in their work. It's just a lack of discipline in their writing as a whole.