OMG, text messaging! It’s destroying the English language, corrupting young minds, turning us into illiterates. It’s probably shrinking the ozone layer, too. Or is it? In his new book, Txting: The Gr8 Db8, David Crystal offers a different...
When it comes to text messaging and its effect on English, the linguistic apocalypse is not nigh. Quite the contrary, in fact. Grant talks about some eye-opening research about text-messaging and teen literacy. This is part of a complete episode...
quizzam n.— «Actually, I used to give three “quizzams”—more challenging than a typical quiz, but simpler than an exam.» —“A Scheduled Quiz on As You Like It Sprang” by Dennis G. Jerz Jerz’s Literacy Weblog Feb. 11, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued...