You may think that text messaging, which has its own grammar and spelling rules, is keeping young people from learning good language skills – and here at ETR, we would agree with you. But not according to British linguist David Crystal. Among other hard-to-believe claims in his book Txting: the Gr8 Db8, texting makes them better, not worse, communicators. You have to have a good understanding of language in order to manipulate it, he says. Tell that to the teachers trying to grade term papers filled with “creative” spelling.
(Source: Techdirt.com)
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