Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

Research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.

Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.

You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.

Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.

Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.