"headteacher condemns 'text speak' for eroding schoolchildren's language skills"

Letter to the editor:

Frankly, the uses of different abbreviations and Neologism in the modern context is considered to be a linguistic benefit where the language itself has modernised due to the technological benefits (i.e phones and the internet). However, you're heavily basing on potentially a few students who got into your school by dumb luck. Majority of the students in Headington school can't be like this. The use abbreviation and colloquialism in formal academic writing are common amongst younger students, thus making me deduce that you're providing limited information about students who use colloquialism and modern Neologisms in academic writing.

I mean it's commonality for language to evolve. I know that proper uses/alteration of dialects can be beneficial to the most part. Code-switching to Formal or informal dialect is essential to gain a job and presenting an academical look. But to deprecate yourselves in vague comments about students use of colloquialisms is absurd, there are no mentions on essays that students had used of constant colloquialisms throughout their work. Students make mistakes like this, it's simply the teacher's job to teach the recipient on mentioning that he is using Neologism on his formal writing and adapt and construct a more fundamental formal academic writing.

Sure, give us context about students using Neologism and abbreviations but don't specify the age, grade or the environment they used it in to fully give a legitimate deduction to whether if the information is misleading or not. It's highly evident that a child raised in this current generation are to inhabit many of the modern social-norms including this type of colloquialism and abbreviations, this could mean the information you transcribed is still highly biased towards the linguistics of text typing on how negatively it has impacted on students. The use of Neologism is common and it shouldn’t be looked down upon.