I receive many emails from students that were likely composed using a mobile device. Their sentences do not contain capitals (“i request…”), there are often grammatical and spelling errors as well as incomplete sentences. This comes as no surprise, I know.
But tYp3 LyK tHi5?
What is the point of this? Does it reflect a generation gap?
Perhaps this is simply a farce, a hook to get people’s attention on the web. I admit that it got my attention, if only as a reminder of the challenge of written communication with so many choices of mobile devices and networks.
This latest example seems to take written communication to a different, more confusing level. In many cases, I respond to these errant students with a request that they resend their message written using correct grammar and spelling. Sometimes they respond with a corrected message, sometimes they do not.
Do you have examples of a similar experience? Let’s hope that written communication can maintain integrity and clarity of understanding, regardless of the inexorable progression of the technology that we use to communicate with each other.