A new study undertaken at Binghamton University in New York suggests that using periods at the end of text messages isn’t only unnecessary, it’s insincere, unfriendly and even heartless. We’ve known for some time that texting doesn’t require proper punctuation or spelling if the meaning is clear. Who wants to type out “talk to you…
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Texting as a second language
Here’s an interesting TED talk from linguist John McWhorter, who maintains that texting, far from being the English language killer that some say, is really a second language. McWhorter says that texting is more like actual speech transcribed than some attempt to bastardize written English. According to McWhorter, young people benefit from texting because it…
