Wednesday 15 October 2014

Language change- David Crystal on texting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h79V_qUp91M

David Crystal is suggesting that texting is good for the english language. Children who are texting fill them with abrevitaions, and the messages have invented their own abreviations. Everyone person who sends a text has a point, on average there are around only 10% of thr words used that are abreviated. It is known that 80% of adults text, adults and kids only started texting in 2000, 2001.

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