Friday September 9, 2011

Quote:

“Alan Mole, the president of the American Literary Council, when asked if his group had ever considered allying itself with the texters, said that it had not, although he added that text messaging ‘does serve the purpose of raising consciousness’ about the fact ‘that there are different ways of making people spell’.”

Reaction:

According to Ammon (2010), there are many words that we deal with on a daily basis that are quite confusing as far as sounding out the word when we spell that word.  We deal with many words that have the same ending letters, but sound completely different when we say them.  This reminded me of the days of “

Open Court

”, which is a reading series that teaches young children to read phonetically.  For example, if a young child looked at a picture of an elephant and wrote “elefant”, the teacher would praise the child for doing a good job.  Alan Mole, president of the American Literary Council made a very good point by saying that texting “raises the consciousness” of individuals by allowing alternative ways to communicate a message. Using abbreviations or spelling phonetically can certainly get your point across.  Text messages are a perfect example.  But just think about the last time you were in hurry and jotted down your grocery list…  

Reference:

Shea, Ammon. (2010, January 22). The keypad solution. Retrieved from http://

     www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24FOB-onlanguage-t.html

Related Resources:  I found a Wordle of confusing words that I wanted to share with everyone who takes the time to look at my Blog.  I thought that this Wordle was a perfect way to show how we use words that we spell a certain way, but would look different if we would spell them the way they sound.  The link is located below:

This is the code to link to this Wordle

<a href="http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2808518/Confusing_Words." 

          title="Wordle: Confusing Words."><img

          src="http://www.wordle.net/thumb/wrdl/2808518/Confusing_Words."

          alt="Wordle: Confusing Words."

          style="padding:4px;border:1px solid #ddd"></a>