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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 author’s attitude toward texting is one of ________.
选项
A、criticism
B、approval
C、skepticism
D、objectiveness
答案
B
解析
作者对于短信交流的态度体现在几个地方:第一段中作者对有关发短信的指责毫不在意,第三段认为发短信是受人欢迎的、变革性的新说话方式,以及最后一段表明文明发展很美好且没有证据表明发短信会毁掉我们的写作技能。作者整体表现出积极肯定的态度,因此B项为正确答案。观点判断类题常需要我们结合整篇文章的前后语义作综合判断,切勿只因个别语句而匆忙下结论。A项“批评”对应的是文章的首句,不过这是批评者和其他人的看法,并非作者的观点。C项“猜疑”的态度与原文整体积极肯定的态度相反,且找不到相关的支持语句。作者对短信进行分析对比时的态度是客观的,但对其整体发展持肯定态度,因此D项不符。
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