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Communication through text messaging and other instant forms of online communication are short and basic. Some people think this will be the death of grammar and spelling. Do you agree or disagree?

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One of the biggest boons of technology is the improvement in the means of
communication
. Arrival of tools for
communication
 over the internet has really shrunk the world, but has led to debates on whether the text
communication
 happening through
such
 tools result in death of grammar and spelling. I disagree with
this
 thought and explained my views in the following paragraphs
Firstly
, most of these text messaging applications come with a limit on the number of letters which makes the users focus only on the key
message
 rather than on the correctness in grammar and spelling.
For example
, Twitter imposes a limit of 140 letters in the
message
 which is too low to compose a
message
. The same happens with short messaging services provided by the telecom operators and the user have to pay more if they exceed
this
 word limit and
hence
 users have to send only the key part of the
message
 keeping it short.
Secondly
,
this
 fear has got very little to do with the latest online messaging systems. The restrictions on keeping the instant
communication
 short is there since the time of telegrams. Telegrams
also
 carried similar restrictions and yet helped people send clear and important messages faster. These new forms of online
communication
 are nothing but a digital version of the telegram. In conclusion, using sentences without proper grammar and short forms of words
are
Suggestion
is
 a necessary evolution
for
Suggestion
of
such
 tools because of these constraints. In places where users do not require an instant response,
such
 as emails, they follow proper grammatical syntaxes and the spellings and
hence
 it need not be considered to be a threat to the language.

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