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

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.

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

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.

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.

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

Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.