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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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问题
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.
It can be learned that writing ________.
选项
A、is merely a duplicate of talking
B、is less important than talking
C、is formal and carefully-worded
D、was separated from talking in the past
答案
C
解析
根据题于中的关键词writing以及选项里将其与说话进行的比较,可以将范围缩小至第二段及第三段。第二段第二句表明,写作是deliberate“审慎的”,C项中的carefully-worded正是对该词的同义转述;此外,第三段第一句讲到,No one talks like that casually“若非在正式场合当中,人们不会那样说话”,that指代第二段讲的作家写作时炮制的长句,此处反过来说明写作是非casually的,即正式的,因此C项为正确答案。A项认为写作仅是说话的duplicate“复制品”,与原文不符,如果仅仅是复制品,后面就不需要进行二者的对比分析。B项认为写作不如说话重要,这是对第二段第一句中talking came first的曲解,原文是单纯的说时间先后,而不是指重要性。第二段第一句指出写作是在说话之后才出现的一种技巧,二者具有历史的延续关系,D项中的was separated from…完全割裂了写作与说话的关系,与原文不符。
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