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“It's very difficult to find even one or two criteria that you will find in every Internet situation, and the reason is that the technology constrains language in individual ways.”

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Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

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We are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existence of language variety and why it is…

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Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.

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It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to…

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Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely…

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“Here are three elements we often see in town names: If a town ends in “-by”, it was originally a farmstead or a small…

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