World is Falling Apart Thread (Locked forever)

[marurun]

We've been on the wane a while. But it was much slower until just this year.

[Joinjoina01]

War is for stupid people, everyone can live n share. Remember , your legacy is what u do in life , not how much money u got r power

[Xeogred]

^ Thread Over!

[o.pwuaioc]

War is for stupid people, everyone can live n share. Remember , your legacy is what u do in life , not how much money u got r power

The problem is that if one side says "You're right! No more war!" but the other side doesn't, the war will still have to continue.

[dsheinem]

War is for stupid people...

n...u...u...r

Wait, are you pro-war or anti-war?

[marurun]

Studies have indicated that texting shorthand use is not necessarily connected to intelligence, DS. Let's not make rude and likely erroneous conclusions.

[dsheinem]

Studies have indicated that texting shorthand use is not necessarily connected to intelligence, DS. Let's not make rude and likely erroneous conclusions.

I have seen studies arguing pretty convincingly to the opposite - that shorthand text especially when appearing outside of an actual sms - is usually evidence of general intellectual sloppiness and denotes an inability to consistently match content to context. This is the same reason I have college students - especially some of the poorest performing ones - hand in essays with text shorthand/lingo and emojis peppered throughout.

I have always been tempted to write this comment: "Can u c ur F? "

[o.pwuaioc]

Alright boys, two appeals to studies have been mentioned. Let's see 'em.

[dsheinem]

Alright boys, two appeals to studies have been mentioned. Let's see 'em.

Here's just a quick couple:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/br ... -us-stupid

Dr. Michael Abramson and associates, an epidemiologist at Monash Universtiy in Melbourne, Australia studied over 300children aged 11 to 14 and found that kids who used mobile phones performed faster on a battery of cognitive tests but they also made significantly more errors. The bottom line is that frequent use of the devices makes kids fast and sloppy.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wi ... age-skills

Drew Cingle and S. Shyam Sundar, who conducted research at Penn State University, and which was published in the professional journal, New Media and Society, argues that young people write in techspeak, using shortcuts, such as homophones, omissions, non-essential letters and initials, to quickly and efficiently compose a text message. They argue that the use of these shortcuts may actually hinder a person’s ability to switch between techspeak and the normal rules of grammar.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7668/1 ... 2eb43d.pdf

However, there is some evidence that young adults’ violation of grammatical conventions when texting may be linked to limited understanding of grammatically-related orthographic conventions.

Now I do know that there is some research that contradicts or challenges these ideas around issues of the influence of texting on spelling/grammar- but nothing that specifically links to "intelligence" that I have seen (as in an correlating textism usage to an IQ score or similar), so maybe marurun has come across those. I just know that there seems to be a lot of research pointing to correlation of usage of textisms and poor performance in other areas of cognitive ability - and I have also seen this anecdotally with regularity.

[marurun]

This book (a friend gifted it to me, he works for Mozilla and occasionally uses shorthand) is my primary source for that claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Txtng:_the_Gr8_Db8