Ahmar's English Journal

I agree that spoken language influences text language, because say if you’re speaking to someone and you are being sarcastic to them, you could do the same thing by texting and send a sarcastic smiley face.

When you are speaking to someone you could be shouting at them and to show that when you’re texting you could be using capital letters to show you’re being serious or just use explanation marks.

The only difference in speaking and texting is that in speaking you use you’re voice to speak, but texting you don’t use you’re voice.

Example of texting: yo

Hi  (smile).

Wuu2 hun  (wink, and wuu2 means what you up to).

Nm bbe u (nm means nothing, bbe means babe).

Hello and welcome to your personal online journal.

This platform has been created to enhance and enrich your learning at the London Nautical School. Its purpose is to provide you with an audience for your work (or work-in-progress) and you have the choice (by altering the ‘visibility’ of your posts) of whether your work on here is visible to the world, or only to your teacher.

Anything you post here in the public domain represents you and thus it’s important that you take care with that decision, but don’t be afraid to publish your work – as the feedback you may get from people at home, your peers and people from around the internet is only likely to enhance it.

Remember you can always access your class blog and all manner of resources through the Edutronic.net main website – and by all means check out the sites of your peers to see what they’re getting up to as well.

If you have any questions for me, an excellent way to get an answer is to create a new private post on this journal. I am notified of any new posts and will reply swiftly to any queries.

Make the most of, and enjoy this new freedom in your English learning.

Righto!

Mr Waugh