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Friend of mine teaches college English. She says teenagers don't write. They text sentence fragments back and forth with each other. As a result her students ca
by Gibbon1 5y ago
Friend of mine teaches college English. She says teenagers don't write. They text sentence fragments back and forth with each other. As a result her students can't string two sentences together coherently.
- jseliger 5y agoI teach college English and while some students fit this stereotype, most don't.
- brandonmenc 5y ago> She says teenagers don't write. They text sentence fragments back and forth with each other. Ah yes, the old days before the mobile phone was invented, when teenagers everywhere were writing novels in their spare time. Teenagers who didn't want to be writers weren't writing back then. Same as now. Although the average teen is almost certainly "writing" more than ever because the primary mode of communication now is typing, not talking.
- burkaman 5y agoBefore phones, were teenagers writing full-length letters to each other in order to communicate? Were most of them writing at all, even just sentence fragments, outside of school? I wasn't alive so I can't say for sure, but I have a pretty good guess.
- circlefavshape 5y ago> Before phones, were teenagers writing full-length letters to each other in order to communicate? I was, and my friends were. Still have a big box of old letters up in the attic someplace
- dwater 5y agoI was never a big writer, but in middle school in the mid 90's I certainly exchanged notes with my girlfriend that were over a page in length daily.
- andruby 5y agoyes* * anecdotal data from me and a dozen or so friends. I assume results will depend a lot on the human's manufacturing date. Mine's in the 1980's :)
- MisterTea 5y ago> They text sentence fragments back and forth with each other. Before computers could fit into your pocket the same was done using paper and called "passing notes".