In the article ‘Twtr? It's majorly bad! Leading headteacher condemns 'text speak' for eroding schoolchildren's language skills’, Caroline Jordan, head of a top private girls' school in Oxford, warned a generation of children are leaving school without a proper grasp of spelling and grammar because of the impact of so-called textspeak. Is text talk really as bad as this article makes it out to be?

​Text talk can really be an incredible thing, humans have invented a slang for almost every word to save time typing. However using this language in real life, I would agree is not a good step into the future. However true this may be, the article does ignore a large amount of factors, in conclusion making your article unfair. A lot of things have not been recognized such as the impacts of text talk, the positives. For you as an editor I think its only fair you tell both sides of the story, the people impacted by text talk and the people who use it. Language itself is an arrangement of interchanges that a group of people use together. Therefor you could just view text talk as another language, just like any other. This language (text talk) is what youngsters nowadays use to communicate to one another in order to save time. Even if it may be unique and different in relation to the standard English taught at schools, doesn't make it any less of an actual language. Language is always changing from generation to generation, this is just the way of talking now and people need to start accepting this fact. By definition text talk is a form of shorthand used on mobile phones when sending SMS (or "text") messages and during instant messaging. Examples of such are: AFAIK ("as far as I know"), CU ("see you"), 2DAY ("today"), and CYM ("check your mail”). In the article you state that students will be majorly effected due to text talk, and that this language will be mimicked in their school work, dropping their grades and overall destroying the English language due to the children of our current generation. You can’t put all children in one category, this simply isn't fair. In the article you’ve stated students who use text talk misspell words as well as shortening them. But don’t you need tot know the proper spelling in order to misspell a word. You have no hardcore evidence that text talk really affects a students academic performance. However there will always be the few amount of students that really don’t care. You cant conform a society to be ideal for you, ever individual has different thoughts and who are you to tell them they a wrong and that they have to stick to some sort of rule book. No that I have told you my point of this I trust that you as the editor take this into consideration and that I gave you a different perspective on text talk.