شرکت در آزمون آنلاین انگلیسی 3 - انگلیسی 3 | آزمون شماره 11773

People tend to have definite opinions about texting. There are those … (A) …, and those who hate it. Among the haters, some have expressed their opinion in very strong terms. One journalist said that “texters are doing to our language what Genghis khan … (B) … to his neighbors 800 years ago. They are … (C) …our punctuation, our sentences, and our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.”

This is not the first time people have said that technology was bad for language. In the 15th century, some scholars opposed the … (D) … of the printing press. Common people shouldn’t read books, these scholars argued, or the language might begin to … (E) …Their common ways of thinking and speaking.

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