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Is Texting Mangling the English Language? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Saturday, October 20, 2012 20:11
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Do your OMGs and LOLs have you sometimes srsly forgetting how to write in proper English? If so, you may not be alone.
Texting is on the rise, and changing the ways people interact with language. For some high schoolers today, abbreviations like those above have likely been a part of their vocabulary since they learned to write a five-paragraph essay. So just how embedded in formal communications could texting slang become?
While that remains to be seen, there’s no doubting the impact it’s had so far. The Internet education portal OnlineSchools.com recently took a look at the trend and came up with some interesting findings via sources including the British Journal of Psychology, the… Continue reading…
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