If you’re concerned the proliferation of instant and text messaging is producing a generation of humans who speak in acronyms and don’t know how to construct a good sentence, your fears are allayed.
Researchers at the University of Toronto studied 71 teens, comparing how they spoke and what they wrote in online conversations. The result was youth are mastering informal and formal language, shortchanging neither.
“[Teen-agers] are showing us that they have a really good command of the English language, so much so that I was really blown away by how fluidly they operate,” Sali Tagliamonte, a professor of linguistics at the university, told EarthTimes.org.
