Txts Hrtng Ltrcy: WTF?

by Jordan Yerman | April 25, 2007 at 04:59 am

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The analysts involved in this study go on to assign a singularverb to a plural noun, but we'll let that one slide; evidently the ubiquity of SMS as a means of communication is reducing Irish schoolkids to monosyllabism.

The fatal attraction between Irish young 'uns and mobile phones poses "a significant threat to writing standards in English", according to the chief examiner of Eire's Department of Education.

The problem was highlighted in a review of standards in last year's Junior Cert, The Irish Times reports. The anonymous examiner expressed concern that "text messaging, with its use of phonetic spelling and little or no punctuation seems to pose a threat to traditional conventions in writing".

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The examiner elaborated that kids were "choosing to answer sparingly, even minimally, rather than seeing questions as invitations to explore the territory they had studied and to express the breadth and depth of their learning and understanding".

Is "monosyllabism" even a word? Or is it a neologism? Lynn Truss is my copilot.