Linguist Explains That Txting Isn't Ruining Spelling or the English Language

For years, we’ve been responding to highly questionable reports or unsubstantiated claims that “txt spk” was somehow destroying the English language and seeping into all sorts of written communications from students who just didn’t know any better. Much of that myth was apparently built off of a paper that was posted to the Internet, that many people then insisted must have been true–but which later turned out to be a hoax.

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