White collars suffer most depression The rising popularity of text messaging on mobile phones poses a threat to writing standards among Irish schoolchildren, an Irish education commission says. The frequency of errors in grammar and punctuation has become a serious concern, the State Examination Commission said in a report after reviewing last year's exam performance by 15-year-olds. "The emergence of the mobile phone and the rise of text messaging as a popular means of communication would appear to have impacted on standards of writing as evidenced in the responses of candidates," the report said, according to Wednesday's Irish Times. "Text messaging, with its use of phonetic spelling and little or no punctuation, seems to pose a threat to traditional conventions in writing." The report laments that, in many cases, candidates seemed "unduly reliant on short sentences, simple tenses and a limited vocabulary." In 2003, Irish 15-year-olds were among the top 10 performers in an international league table of literacy standards compiled by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. (AP)

愛(ài)爾蘭某教育委員會(huì)稱(chēng)，手機(jī)短信的日益普及對(duì)愛(ài)爾蘭學(xué)生的書(shū)寫(xiě)規(guī)范造成了威脅。 愛(ài)爾蘭國(guó)家考試委員會(huì)在針對(duì)去年15歲學(xué)生考試成績(jī)的評(píng)論報(bào)告中稱(chēng)，語(yǔ)法和標(biāo)點(diǎn)錯(cuò)誤頻頻出現(xiàn)，已成為一個(gè)嚴(yán)重的問(wèn)題。 據(jù)周三的《愛(ài)爾蘭時(shí)報(bào)》消息，這份報(bào)告中稱(chēng)，“手機(jī)的出現(xiàn)和手機(jī)短信日益成為一種流行的交流方式對(duì)書(shū)寫(xiě)規(guī)范造成了不良影響，這在考生的答卷中得到了證明。” “發(fā)手機(jī)短信常用語(yǔ)音輸入法，很少或根本不用標(biāo)點(diǎn)，這對(duì)傳統(tǒng)的書(shū)寫(xiě)規(guī)范造成了威脅。” 報(bào)告指出，在很多情況下，考生“過(guò)度使用短句和簡(jiǎn)單的時(shí)態(tài)，所用的詞匯也很有限。” 2003年，愛(ài)爾蘭15歲年齡組的學(xué)生在經(jīng)合組織讀寫(xiě)規(guī)范國(guó)際大賽中躋身十強(qiáng)。 （英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津姍姍編輯）