The one thing I realize with the youth of today

[Silver]

Their vocabulary is severely limited thanks to texting.

[GoHalos1993]

And your point is? lol 

By the way; every generation has it's issues

[Silver]

A lack of vocabulary is a good thing?

[GoHalos1993]

A lack of vocabulary is a good thing?

I never said it was. I'm just saying that every generation has it's own issues.

[Silver]

I never said it was. I'm just saying that every generation has it's own issues.

I had my own issues, it did not prevent me from having a great vocabulary.

[Losty]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CSCQuN_Ox9s

[Thumpalumpacus]

2 bad, U lose, lolz

PS -- It's not the generation itself; it's the parents who don't involve themselves in the education of their children. My son can textspeak, and can write shimmering essays for his university classes, because his mother and I decided when he was born that he would not get baby-talk, and we each kept a good dictionary in our houses. I read to him nightly the three days a week I had him, and by four, he read to me -- he had read Call of the Wild by five, and Lord of the Rings by eight. He still reads daily, for pleasure -- stuff like The National Interest, Raw Story, and less often nowadays, books.

Parental investment is key to a child's learning. You're seeing the results of a generation of parents accustomed to treating the computer as a babysitter, I think.

[Losty]

I guess I'm old now because I really suck at text speak.

[ignoramus]

Well, at least they've got good dress sense.

[Alex K]

That's most likely bullshit. Steven Pinker writes about this question, and as far as I remember, his conclusion is that the importance of modes of communication requiring such telegram style writing don't necessarily impoverish the language.