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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-30-09 10:36 PM Original message |
Internet Social Networking and the "New Literacy" |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-30-09 10:38 PM Response to Original message |
1. "Typing" is not "writing." |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-30-09 11:00 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. It's "writing" in the general sense; rendering language into a visual form. |
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greyl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-30-09 11:26 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. Yeah, Stephen King never wrote a book in his life. nt |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 12:21 AM Response to Reply #1 |
18. So tell me what exaclty do I do every day? |
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greyl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 12:58 AM Response to Reply #18 |
25. Jeez, maybe you need to calibrate your beak. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 01:00 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Social network and all |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 09:47 PM Response to Reply #1 |
41. It's not so much *typing* per se that is to be contrasted with writing in the full-blooded sense... |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-30-09 10:39 PM Response to Original message |
2. except that it looks like: |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-30-09 11:04 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. And I'm sure our ancestors never used short-hand... |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-30-09 10:39 PM Response to Original message |
3. hi sup k koo ppl bye lol nt |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-30-09 11:16 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. That was just perfect - |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-30-09 11:23 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Wow, such dismissive, pretentious nonsense. |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-30-09 11:35 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Wow! |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-30-09 11:59 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. No, I love my mother just fine. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 12:05 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Deleted message |
Rob Gregory Browne (333 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 12:35 AM Response to Reply #7 |
21. I wouldn't call what people do on social networks typing |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 12:39 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Uh-huh, |
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Rob Gregory Browne (333 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 03:11 AM Response to Reply #22 |
27. As Robert Browning said: |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 11:48 AM Response to Reply #27 |
33. Ohhhhhhhh - |
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Rob Gregory Browne (333 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 06:20 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. Good luck to you as well |
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arcadian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-30-09 11:08 PM Response to Original message |
6. So, I guess, this qualifies as superb writing: |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-30-09 11:18 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. You must have missed this part of the article: |
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abumbyanyothername (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 09:43 PM Response to Reply #8 |
39. I agree that the online message board experience |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-01-09 07:57 AM Response to Reply #39 |
45. And we all know what happened to Socrates. |
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kimmylavin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 09:57 PM Response to Reply #8 |
42. But that's not literacy. |
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WorseBeforeBetter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-30-09 11:44 PM Response to Original message |
12. "New literacy" like "new investing" and "new banking" and "new way to view your home... |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 12:07 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Check out some of the other things |
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WorseBeforeBetter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 12:44 AM Response to Reply #15 |
23. Ah, yes, the self-important *original* thinkers. |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 12:48 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Nice site - |
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voc (279 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 12:20 AM Response to Reply #12 |
17. +1 |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 07:58 AM Response to Reply #12 |
29. New School Teaching Requirements |
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SmileyRose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 12:11 AM Response to Original message |
16. If it works for you in the world you will live in then great. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 12:24 AM Response to Original message |
19. Hmm this is why we have had a couple young kids make it |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 07:43 AM Response to Reply #19 |
28. They can't help it, they simply don't know any better. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 12:26 AM Response to Original message |
20. kewl |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 08:16 AM Response to Original message |
30. I would recommend that nay-sayers read the whole article |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 08:48 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Hell, Plato was whining that writing was bad for memory. |
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Le Taz Hot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 09:06 AM Response to Original message |
32. Couldn't possibly be that they're |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 03:20 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. Looks like you didn't even read the whole article. |
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smoochpooch (688 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 06:35 PM Response to Original message |
36. Yes, people write good because there social networking. |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 06:40 PM Response to Original message |
37. Kicked and recommended. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 09:32 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. You are Welcome! |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
40. And illiterates implicitly enjoy the asinine conceit that one can't be "literate" in both ways. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 10:07 PM Response to Original message |
43. Writing by the young is getting worse, not better. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-01-09 07:55 AM Response to Reply #43 |
44. Don't confuse formal writing and informal communication and short-hand. |
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