Why blame tv?

[Obito Sharingan Uchiha]

I see people blamming tv, but truly, it may help people use better language. You know how little kids quote their tv hero? They keep saying it untill they say it like a dictionary. What if those "txt tlkrs" began to repeat proper grammer? It may be the blow on "txt-chttn". Let me know if you like my idea.  

[Ithaya]

It's not like they'd watch that kind of programme...

I mean, TV isn't all bad. It's taught me one heck of a lot. But the kind of stuff most people watch...It's not gonna do anything for literacy.  

[Lazarus Soul]

Some TV's good, but unless you have captions on (which a lot of people hate), all it will do is help you learn a new word or two, nothing in literacy. However, video games are much more educational. I actually learned a few virtues AND how to spell because of some of those! biggrin

I thought it was violence, sex and drugs that people blamed on TV, not illiteracy. Oh, well. Could be that, too. biggrin  

[Mangabrary]

Yeah. it's like that whole 'monkey see monkey do' thing. If we can get more and more people to BRUTALLY MURDER 'txt tlk' and the like, then maybe other people will be thinking 'OMG IT'S THE NEXT THINGY!' (I used the 'omg' becuase that's probably what they will be thinking.) Then maybe that will convert a few people to literacy instead of idiocy!

Just an extra:

I'm ashamed... my own father uses 'txt tlk'! crying  

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am17

I see people blamming tv, but truly, it may help people use better language. You know how little kids quote their tv hero? They keep saying it untill they say it like a dictionary. What if those "txt tlkrs" began to repeat proper grammer? It may be the blow on "txt-chttn". Let me know if you like my idea.

I really have no idea how that'll help. I actually don't understand what you're saying, but, uh, I think you're trying to say the TV characters will influence people .... ? Sure, but it's like ... TV kind of brainwashes you, like you're in a hurry to do anything else .... thus equalling in "txt-chttn"  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

Blaming TV totally is simplistic. The fact remains though, that TV stands in the place of reading for many people, thus leading to the decline in literacy. Every decade since TV was introduced to the general public, the general public have gotten stupider and less literate.

It's no accident that my literacy has soared since I haven't been watching TV.  

[Eurykleia]

Heck, I learnt English by watching the telly in the first place, but that hasn't stopped me from reading books and being litterate!

I blame the internet, some people are too lazy to type out their words and start leaving out the vowels. Other people see them do it and they think 'Hey, that looks cool, I'm gonna do that too!', and txt tlk is born.

I think that schools should make the kids read some proper books!  

[Archdemonessa]

I learned English from T.V. it can't be all that bad. I mean look at my grammar, not bad not good. Ok, sure I'm a Harry Potter- book nerd, but I'm good at grammar, even though Hagrid dosen't have it.  

[Eurykleia]

UmmeKulsoom

I learned English from T.V. it can't be all that bad. I mean look at my grammar, not bad not good. Ok, sure I'm a Harry Potter- book nerd, but I'm good at grammar, even though Hagrid dosen't have it.

That's exactly the way I learnt it! 4laugh When I was little, I watched lots and lots of BBC and when I had a good base of English, I started reading Harry Potter and other English books. I don't think you can learn a complete language by watching TV, but I do think it can improve it when you watch the right channels (a music channel won't add much to your vocabulary)

Besides, if TV is bad for your grammar, why would the teachers at my school suggest we watch German television to improve our German?  

[Obito Sharingan Uchiha]

I know Japenese from watching Naruto and never stop reading about Naruto. (Well, mostly Sakura)I don't have Sakura pictures in my room!
Anyway, what I ment was that we just not use txt-tlk and not even go near those who do, they'll get lonly because all of their frinds don't use txt-tlk, and stay away from them. I have no idea what I said, so don't ask me. sweatdrop  

[I am Jaques colon]

Not unless you plug the frequency for playhouse disney into their medula oblongatas, I don't think so. But if you figure out a way to plug the frequency into their medula oblongatas, you're a sick and twisted individual.  

[Kohy]

Shinobi 1977

Blaming TV totally is simplistic. The fact remains though, that TV stands in the place of reading for many people, thus leading to the decline in literacy. Every decade since TV was introduced to the general public, the general public have gotten stupider and less literate.

It's no accident that my literacy has soared since I haven't been watching TV.

I don't think television has created a decline in literacy as much as I believe it caused the decline in imagination...

My mother never seems to be able to stop telling me about how when she was a child, she had a better imagination than this generation as television leaves you with little to imagine, as you're seeing it all put out for you.

But then again, I can undertand television being the decline for literacy although I highly doubt it is the biggest problem. For all the poverty that we have around the world, those who can't afford televisions, or watch them for the matter, it surely didn't improve their literacy.

Therefore, even if televisions did help in the decline of literacy, there are still many factors to be aware of that make up our literacy problem.  

[Obito Sharingan Uchiha]

lancekatre

Not unless you plug the frequency for playhouse disney into their medula oblongatas, I don't think so. But if you figure out a way to plug the frequency into their medula oblongatas, you're a sick and twisted individual.

What if I am that twisted? lol Yeah right.  

[Zealot of Insanity]

I tend to not blame the television, because the main reason that Txt Tlk is floating around my school (which is a school for dumb and failing losers) is peer vandalization.

It spreads like maggot on meat. It's taken over ninety-seven (approxamation?) percent of the school. xp

Possibly, please.  

[Drunken Bandit]

Well to me TV has become different then when I was a child. BBC is no longer the big TV show it once was. These days it's about Comedy Central. I learned from my family and school. Others blame TV because it is changing every minute.