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Texting has long been lamented as the downfall of the written word, "penmanship for illiterates," as one critic called it. To w
Texting has long been lamented as the downfall of the written word, "penmanship for illiterates," as one critic called it. To w
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2022-11-25
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Texting has long been lamented as the downfall of the written word,
"penmanship for illiterates,"
as one critic called it. To which the proper response is LOL. Texting properly isn’t writing at all—it’s actually more similar to spoken language. And it’s a "spoken" language that is getting richer and more complex by the year.
Historically, talking came first; writing is just an artifice that came along later. While talk is largely subconscious and rapid, writing is deliberate and slow. Over time, writers took advantage of this and started crafting sentences such as this one, from The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: "The whole engagement lasted above 12 hours, till the gradual retreat of the Persians was changed into a disorderly flight, of which the shameful example was given by the principal leaders and the Surenas himself."
No one talks like that casually—or should. But it is natural to desire to do so for special occasions. In the old days, we didn’t much write like talking because there was no mechanism to reproduce the speed of conversation. But texting and instant messaging do—and a revolution has begun. It involves the basic mechanics of writing, but in its economy, spontaneity and even vulgarity, texting is actually a new kind of talking. There is a virtual fashion of concision and little interest in capitalization or punctuation. The argument that texting is "poor writing" is analogous, then, to one that the Rolling Stones is "bad music" because it doesn’t use violas.
Texting is developing its own kind of grammar. Take LOL. It doesn’t actually mean "laughing out loud" in a literal sense anymore. LOL has evolved into something much subtler and sophisticated and is used even when nothing is remotely amusing. Jocelyn texts "Where have you been?" and Annabelle texts back "LOL at the library studying for two hours." LOL signals basic empathy between texters, easing tension and creating a sense of equality. Instead of having a literal meaning, it does something—conveying an attitude—just like the "-ed" ending conveys past tense rather than "meaning" anything. LOL, of all things, is grammar.
Civilization is fine—people banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, and there is no evidence that texting is ruining composition skills. Worldwide people speak differently from the way they write, and texting—quick, casual and only intended to be read once—is actually a way of talking with your fingers.
The Rolling Stones is cited in Paragraph 3 to ________.
选项
A、criticize the vulgarity of rock music
B、indicate that texting is a revolution
C、imply that texting is no poor writing
D、show the fashion of concision in texting
答案
C
解析
根据题干可直接定位到第三段,根据题干中的Rolling Stones可以把范围缩小到该段最后一句。此处考查了对be analogous to这一短语的理解。analogous是analogy的派生词,不难推测出该短语意为“与……类似”,即滚石音乐的例子与前面那种认为短信交流是“拙劣的写作”的言论相似。“滚石不用中提琴就是糟糕的音乐”,这是不合逻辑的,原文用此来与“短信息是拙劣的写作”进行类比,说明这样评论短信交流也是不合逻辑的,因此C项为正确答案。该句只是用摇滚乐作类比,没有批评的意思,vulgarity出现在第三段第五句,该词用于形容短信的特点,而非指向摇滚乐,故排除A项。B项中的revolution出现在该段第四句,强调发短信是一种新的说话方式,但这与滚石的例子没有关系。D项中的fashion of concision说的是短信的特点,与该例子无关。
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