Mc Whorter believes that texting “degradates written language” because he deliberates that texting is not really a written language. He also adds that texting bear a resemblance to spoken language due to the fact that it evades punctuation and capitalization. It has a tendency to to be looser and telegraphic, as well as less reflective.
Answer:Founder Effect
Explanation:
Founder Effect Definition
This is a phenomena that refers to when a larger group which has been in one location splits apart into smaller groups as they move to different locations.
Irrespective of the traits acquired from the original large population , the newly formed small population will only take traits or resemblance from the founders of the smaller groups rather than from the original ancestors.
As the population get smaller so are the chances of losing all the traits from the original larger population.
This means as the population splits into smaller groups and locating into other areas they will eventually be genetically different from their original population from which they came from.
There is a chance of new species forming with totally different genes.
hence the South African Afrikaners do not resemble their original population anymore as a result of the founder effect.
This is an example of psychological conditioning. When a stimulus (a flash of light) is paired with a consequence (an electric shock), the subject has a particular behaviour (pulling the finger away). After enough repetition, the subject will learn to associate the two, and the stimulus will be enough to motivate the behaviour, even when no consequence is present.
After several trials without the consequence, the subject will again dissociate the stimulus from the behaviour, and will go back to his pre-study pattern, in a process called extinction.
