Chatrooms, social networking sites “behind generation that can’t
spell”November 23rd, 2010 - 6:33 pm ICT by ANI London, Nov 23
(ANI): A study has suggested that Internet chatrooms and social
networking sites are to be blamed for children spelling words
incorrectly. The study says as people type at speed online,
there is now a “general attitude” that there is no need to
correct mistakes or conform to regular spelling rules. And this
means that children who have been brought up with the Internet
do not question wrongly spelt words. “The increasing use of
variant spellings on the internet has been brought about by
people typing at speed in chatrooms and on social networking
sites where the general attitude is that there isn’t a need . .
. to conform to spelling rules,” the study stated. “We are now
witnessing the effect these linguistic variations are having on
children born into the computer age with such a high level of
access in and out of schools,” the Scotsman quoted report author
Lucy Jones, a former stude