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.
David CrystalSending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.
David CrystalYou don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.
David CrystalAnyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.
David Crystal