Summary # 7 T. Burns

In the cartoon of "The I.M.s of Romeo and Juliet" there is an internet conversation in the center of the picture and a girl with computer on one side and a boy with computer on the other. The room is a huge mess. Written by the staff cartoonist for the New Yorker, Roz Chast, this conversation shows little of how to actually write. Everything is shortened in some way. Words are mis-spelled by having extra letters get in between the correct letters. They are also just mis-spelled period as if these kids didn't really lknow how to spell. They type to eachother about their day and tell eachother how their parents dislike the other. This shows today that technology is making kids lazier than they were when there was no technology. Roz Chast summed it up by Romeo's Instant Message "scool sucked 2day" and with Juliet's message "cardoza called home, sez im failig spanish btw both my rents hate U". I guess in I.M.s correct grammar and spelling is not a necessity.