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Story Archives of 'texting'
Texting With the Fishes
By Laura Sheeter on Tuesday, October 6, 2009.
In New York City, fish and other river creatures are getting in on the whole text messaging thing. You send them a message and they’ll send you one back about how they’re doing, and even a little bit on the state of the river’s health at that precise moment. Really.
Texting for the Title
By Zach Johnk on Wednesday, June 17, 2009.
We have a new national champion! And we’re not talking about the Los Angeles Lakers. No, our new national champ is a 15-year-old from Des Moines, Iowa. Kate Moore is the winner of yesterday’s national texting championship. Surrounded by flashing bulbs and TV cameras, Kate beat her closest competitor by typing the chorus from "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah."
Txting: The Gr8 Deb8
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, October 23, 2008.Sending a text message has become second-nature to so many of us that we barely think about it any more. Running late for an appointment? Send a quick text. Want to let someone know you’re thinking of them? Zip off a couple lines.
It’s become an accepted mode of communication - getting a message out without the time or disruption of a phone call. It’s amazing to think that just a few years ago hardly any of us were texting. Today about three billion people on the planet – half the world’s population – have cell phones. And at least a trillion text messages are sent each year.
The question of how all the abbreviations and vowel-less words used to text will affect our language hangs over us. Is texting eroding the way we write and speak? David Crystal is a linguist and author of over a hundred books on linguistics and other topics. His most recent is Txting: The Gr8 Deb8. He argues that all the popular beliefs about texting are wrong, or at least debatable. And that far from hindering literacy, texting may be helping it. He joins Word of Mouth from his home in Holyhead, North Wales.
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