Wd students gettng habituated 2 SMS lang, d influence of d lang iz nw frequently visible in answr scripts 2.

Ds nw trnd of replacing fwr lettrs or 1 lettr 4 a wrd, lk, ‘tk’ 4 take, ‘cz’ 4 because, ‘y’ 4 why, ‘gr8’ for great, ‘goin’ 4 going, etc, in d ans sheet, iz annoyin d evaluators, leading 2 deducn of mrks in sum cases. Tho sum examiners hv accptd d land chng, mst teachers r agnst d use of SMS lang in examinns. Sum wrds, wd dbl meaning, cn also create confusion. Fr ex, ‘2’ 4 to or too, ‘btw’ 4 by the way or between, ‘gv’ 4 give or gave, ‘diff’ 4 different or difficult.

Navn Halemane, pursr of doctrl deg in A Lingstc Apprch 2 e-Eng, expcts d futr studnt of lit 2 qot Shakesprs charctr Hamlet’s fms phrse 'to be or not to be, that is the question', as '2b r 02b, dt iz d ?.'

SMS lang lks a unvrsl std, makin it diff 2 grsp, as ppl hv diff levls of undrstndng. Wn engrssd in qck textng, ppl tnd 2 ignr d variant btw frml Eng and SMS lang. SMS lang iz prohibtd frm use in examintns.

Bt if d prob is just dt d SMS lang iz informl, it cld jst b a mattr of standardisng d sub. Teachrs may as wl gt accustmd 2 SMS lang in d ans scrpts n devlp understndng, in ordr 2 sv tme. X