Date Posted:16:30:13 01/23/08 Wed Author: Paul Subject: Re: Help needed In reply to:
Rana
's message, "Re: Help needed" on 13:55:51 01/23/08 Wed
>>His answer to question 7 is very perceptive.
>>
>>Hi, Jay!
>>
>>Roger
>>
>and to question No. 6 too... he is a smart boy, no
>surprise, of course, him being Tina's son. Thanks Jay,
>and thanks Tina..
>
>BTW, Tina, the study was in Arabic, otherwise I would
>have e-mailed it to you. But I can summarize the
>findings as this:
>I questioned 2 groups: the first goup consisted of 9
>native speakers and Johney Reb and the second group
>consisted of 10 Arab speaking people who use English
>(txt language) in their messages and to chat on
>messenger.
>Only 3 persons of the English group expressed concern
>over the way txt language is affecting written and
>spoken English, others were confident that there is no
>risk of this trend taking over classic language.
>7 out of the 10 arabic speaking interviewees said it
>is affecting the Englsih language and that they
>wouldn't prefer Arabic to have same flexibility (it is
>hard to shorten Arabic words same way as you could in
>english).
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Thank you for giving us the breakdown, Rana. Interesting results.
