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Well text talk can indeed be considered lazy. But this is one of the ways that language evolves over time. Text talk is faster and more convenient then writing out whole words, and as our generation grows up with it, it will become more engrained and then it will be engrained in our childrens generation until it is seen as proper english and the way we write now would be considered unneciscarily tedious. Text talk mostly consists of condensing words to make texting faster.

An old example of doing this would be the word "f*ck" which stands for
Fornication Under Consent of King
which came from back in olden european times people had to get the consent of local lords and kings to have sexual intercourse out of wedlock or to marry in general.

its just plain laziness. it isnt that hard to write out 'why' instead of 'y'. a 2 letter difference. i would give a kid a zero if they text talk on their homework.

Text talking is meant for talking via cell phone, and occasionally can be used for IMing people. (Because, let's face it, writing paragraphs when you are talking to someone via MSN can get to be a handful typing.)

However, like many of the other users here, I am appalled that they would schools would encourage illiteracy. If I was to hand in a paper with text talk on it in high school, I would get insta' fail'd. Or, at least, given a second chance write it and at least get a very low D.

Colleges are really strict on text talking on their papers, in fact you'd get insta' fail'd and no second chance, as one guy did in our one class for English class, and he pleaded for a better grade, since his school encouraged text talk in their papers. The professor laughed at him and said "How did you get into college then?" And if you use it on a presentation at work, you're only going to get laughed at.

And with the whole, "Well, other schools are encouraging it, so why not" excuse is complete bullshit. mad
If the other schools started encouraging students to jump off the Empire State building, would your school follow suit? No. I didn't think so.

Education is important. Don't "txt tlk." Type out and write out your damn words.

/rant

That is just sad.... -_- My teacher would never allow us to do that though, and i'm glad she hasn't.

Text talk can get hard to understand, its lazy and unitellegant sounding as well. I hate it when I see it used to much. Now they're allowing it in schools? All I have to say is... wow. Really? neutral

An observation:
I think humans are starting to evolove backwards in some ways, becoming less and less complex, slowly, and it is going to begin with our minds. If anybody has read an old book called The Time Machine, you would get where I'm coming from. Technology might have some negative effects in how we grow as a species, it is already affecting how we talk. I might be thinking to far ahead in how stuff like this will afffect humans though. I might sound like an idiot, or a genius to you right now, but oh well. razz

I have spoken...

Bahaha.
Someone did that in my adv. lit class.
Ohh, my teacher is a brilliant woman.
She took the paper and stuck it up on the overhead
and proceeded to instruct the offender to read it out loud.
On top of his desk.
While txting the paper to his entire contact list.
(excluding his boss)
Then he had to rewrite the whole thing properly
and write a lengthy essay on the detrimental effects of texting on society and education.
Then rewrite that entire essay in txt slang.
Then had to read both essays in front of the class
with hand-out copies (pink, floral scented -- I kid you not) for everyone.

Yeah, I loved that class.
We played catch with my water bottle one day..
then volleyball with a blow up beach ball
and heads-up 7 up or charades on Fridays
and random trivia that had no educational purpose.
(hence why we had tons of home work...
we never got anything done in class! xD)

If I was teacher and a kid handed in an assignment with text talk, I'd fail them.