Why do todays youth write like total idiots?

Just read these posts. No correct syntax. No idea about verb tense. I'm not the greatest writer but c'mon? Don't they teach sentence diagrams anymore? What an embarrassment to America. They're our future?! (There are ******?)

Why do todays youth write like total idiots?
Your question can be answered in two words:





TEXT MESSAGING.





While I can see it being handy texting on a 12 key phone, I think it's just plain lazy to write like that on a full pc keyboard. It seems that youth today looks for the easy way out. I have met 15 year olds that could not tell time without a digital clock.





Sad but true :-(
Reply:This is the unfortunate problem that occurs due to chat rooms and cell phone texting. People today have gotten so accustomed to typing in shorthand 'chatspeak' that they cannot be bothered to pay attention to spelling or grammar.





It is indeed an embarrassment, and an irritation to many people. However, many of them who type that way and refuse to even try to clean it up a bit are either kids, or adults who can't type, so they type shorthand to be faster.





Someone answered a similar question earlier with "i no how tspel n use gremmar, but it coolr 2 typ this way" or something similar.





It makes my eyes bleed.
Reply:Sentence diagrams are to be considered an abomination. Perhaps our efforts would suit you better if you didn't just teach, but taught well. Also, I would encourage you to encourage others to read. The majority of this lack of grammar comes from e-mail, text messaging, and chat rooms. These are most likely just a few of many factors that contribute to the problem.
Reply:hyhyhyhy
Reply:"Why Johnny Can't Read or Write" Now for the PC, PS2, XBOX and PSP. (That's why)
Reply:Its just a form of shorthand-nothing to get all excited about!


I believe it all began with trying to use "code" so mom %26amp; dad didn't know what they were typing on the computer!


Its actually kinda (oops!) fun when you try it!


Give them a break! All school year they have to constantly think about grammar %26amp; syntax!


This is YA ,not grammar school!


Man, what do your grocery lists look like? Pulitzer prize winners?
Reply:Personally, I blame the parents and the education system. Parents don't take the time to ensure that their children are doing the homework, getting an education, turning off the television/computer, and getting back to basics. The education system pressures the teachers to pass the students regardless of the grades earned. How often do we hear of high school graduates that can't read or write? How can this happen?





I have a teacher friend who was told, by a parent, that it was the school's responsibility to teach the child morals, ethics and responsibility. That's just wrong.





Let's get back to basics. Parents take responsibility for your children, teachers take responsiblity for education.
Reply:Others and I that are older, only have us to blame.


As the asker mentioned, they are our future as we were the ones before us.


We stopped or failed in reaching and teaching them.


It is not they who invented the PC; PS2; Sega; Nintendo; DVDs; CDs; et al.


It is mainly our generation.


It is us that lost patience and wanted everything NOW and passed that on to them.


Many of us are the recovering alcoholics and addicts that they watched as they grew up. Many of us are the ones that didn’t speak correct English around them or correct them as they learned to talk and communicate.


We didn’t give them that many tools to work with to make things better in the world.


We taught them to be selfish and wasteful.


We wanted them to have the things that we didn’t have when we were growing up so we gave it to them without teaching them to earn.


I could go on and on.


They are evolving and laying the groundwork for the ones that will be THEIR future.


Out of it just might come a new language.
Reply:They'll learn. Just like if you speak slang in a family outing, the moment they show off their resume and have 'Good writing skillz' as one of their bullet points, they'll realize the error in their ways.





Let them be. All we can do is watch them grow out of it.
Reply:Don't you mean: "Why does today's youth write as if it were comprised of total idiots"?





True, education 'aint what it used ter be; but in the wake of more liberal social demcratic thinking, there was an increasing dependence on 'whole of school' style of learning (an open style of classroom education), rather than formalised learning. I think the pendulum is swinging back again, because the 'open' style suited the brighter kids; but left the less bright (or less priviledged) ones struggling. The search for egalitarian education failed those very kids it was aimed at helping. A more balanced approach is probably the way to go.
Reply:Cuz they got drifted with all the technology and they have no time to study and stuff u no!
Reply:Unfortunately, theses individuals are our future. Standards in schools have decreased, and society has found it ok to not push the importance of proper English and sentence structure. Hell, many jobs are hiring people with out resumes. The main reason why there is an epidemic of people who can not write is that people don't read literature, news articles, or any other writing that isn't formulated by another simplistic internet user.
Reply:Generally speaking, they don't teach the same degree of technical "correctness" in writing as they have in the past.





There is a much greater emphasis on appreciation of content rather than form. That combined with the jaded longing for the way it was "back in the day" that creeps up on each generation as they age, and you have "todays youth". Just the same as they said, whats wrong with youth today in the fifties, sixties, seventies etc...





Welcome to the new millenium.
Reply:It mainly has to do with this new technology called IMing and texting. If you type in every word as is, the cellphone / mobile phone company will charge you per text by the minute, so the fewer characters [a-z;A-Z; 0-9] or symbol[!@#$%^%26amp;*()_=, etc...] and spaces typed = less charges and the faster your message will get across. On IMs, if I type too slowly, my friends will go to sleep, so that by the time they finish responding to my message, I'll definitely be asleep also.
Reply:i dont like to write like that, but i think they do it to rebel or they think missing out 1 or 2 letters is going to help type it faster. They seem lazy like that, they need to relax, stop drinking so much coca cola and take things slowly
Reply:no there not you adults just judge too quick
Reply:I don't know. I'm personally at the age group right now that is probably in the age range you're talking about. Several of my friends type like that. I actually have one friend who instant messages me all the time and writes like





"sooooooo wut r u up2 sk8er?"


"shcool 2dai wuz so laim"





It honestly gets so bad sometimes that I just write back....


"Yep...."


Cause I have no idea what she's saying. Today, I actually got a message from her that said "5trgggg"





I just went, "Hm."





And, the comments on Youtube Videos? *shudder*
Reply:As a whole, they're WATCHING and NOT reading (thinking).
Reply:I think the same thing whenever I start answering questions. Sometimes, the grammar is so bad that even though I know the answer to their questions, I refuse to answer them.
Reply:I'm a youth and I hate to bust your bubble, but I am NOT an idiot.


[That is a sentence, it has a verb %26amp; a noun. I have a future, and I am the future :] Person c'mon isn't a word.
Reply:i happen to agree.


i hate the way the youth type.


with all their retarded spellings like


wat r u doin 2day?


that kind of stuff really bugs me.


or when they type LiKe DiS


and actually expect people to understand them.
Reply:only the total idiots talk like that. it is not because they are younger.
Reply:I have a few theories... laziness, conformity, moronism, incompetence
Reply:Hi. I'm 16, and I'd just like to point out a few apparent flaws in your criticisim;


a) Before you criticize the spelling and grammar of "todays youth" (you're missing an apostrophe in youth, by the way), try fixing your own. It's appalling. I'm probably half your age, yet I can safely say I had better writing skills than you when I was 7.


b) Before you begin to criticize today's youth AT ALL, remember that over 70% of the volunteer work that benefits communities all over the world is conducted by youth. That's right, people under 20. And over 90% of all criminal offences are commited by people OVER the age of 20.





Perhaps you should think twice about your own generation of hypocritical, cynical bigots. You are the ones who induced global warming and other environmental problems, and today's youth are stuck with the cumbersome job of correcting the errors of your generation. How can you even begin to criticize something so trivial as our spelling and grammar when your own generation has so many problems?!


Hypocrisy is a flaw in your generation.


It's a good thing that the future is in OUR hands.