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

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

Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar.

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer is simply: for fun

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