Flaming segments in reading today is use to create an interest to readers. To me I see flame as a way to point out the important part of English writing. We all are guilty of using action words to keep the reader interested in listening to what we have to say.
Also, in the standard English world flaming is intended to bring about rage or excitement to text. English text is sometimes looked at in a critical way when it single out. When I think of flame, I think of bursting words that expresses energy and wits.
Texting of today is mostly done by short detail words that are straight to the point. This text is not spelled out fully, but abbrevated to keep from doing long texting.
I myself don't approve of flame text, due to the fact that sometime I am lost by it. Sometimes when I see flame text, I respond back by saying, what? Smile. However, this is the new technology of today, and people are thrill about it.
Here is the skinny on how I feel the flaming will directly result in lowering the grammatical conscience of teens: If you always write shorthand and incorrectly in the majority of your communication, it shall follow you into areas of your life where it isn't OMG SO TOT COOL. :) Just a thought.
ReplyDeletei might be making this up but i think we talked about this last night in the chat...how kids are starting to use text like that in papers and homework assignments? if i was a teacher and a student handed in a paper with any sort of that language i would give them a big fat F
ReplyDeleteI can see what flaming could be used to make a point, but most of the time it isn't, it's just childish ranting to stir people up.
ReplyDeleteI think the problem with flaming text is that it gets caught in our proper grammar. I am guilty of this one time I was writing a paper and find myself using a lot of abbreviation which was not good. It looked as if I had to do the whole paper over lol. But I just believe flaming text is bring our generation grammar down.
ReplyDeleteI feel as if I can be completely OCD about my texting. I cannot stand grammatical errors, but abbreviations have made me lazy. As for flame text, I understand it to just "fire" people up. What is the point? Isn't half the fun in a confrontation? It would be more frustrating for me to try to do that with text than face to face anyway. What a waste.
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