Is txtng gd 4 D English lngg?
The linguist David Crystal appears on the BBC program “It’s only a theory” a popular TV forum.
He addresses the issue of texting and its impact on writing: another mythe that must fall…
The thing to point out here is that topics such as texting are discussed, and eventually ‘approved’ in television shows.
Gaby David
Antonio Casilli
José David
“My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we usd 2go2 NYmy bro, his GF& thr 3 :@kds FTF…Bt my Ps wr so :/ BC o 9/11 tht they dcdd 2 sty in SCO & spnd2 wks up N… Iws vvv brd in MON… 2day, I cam bk 2 skool. I feel vO☺ BC I hv dn all my hm wrk. Now its BAU
my summer holidays were a complete waste of time. Before, we used to go to New York to see my brother, his girlfriend and their three screaming kids face to face… But my parents were worried because the terrorism attack on September 11 that they decided we should stay in Scotland and spend two weeks up north…I was extremely bored, in the middle of nowhere…Today, I returned to school. I feel very saintly, because I’ve done all my homework. Now it is business as always.”
GOGGIN Cell Phone Culture, Mobile technology in everyday life, Routledge, 2006, p. 116: