Linguists Are Mixed About Text Messages
Melissa Trujillo,
Excite News,
Feb 13, 2003
As the old quote goes, it's a pretty unimaginative mind that can think of only one way to spell a word. At least, that's what I say when someone points out the inevitable typos on OLDaily (Rod counted five yesterday, but I don't think an extra space counts as a spelling mistake). Out of deference to my readers, I don't use the SMS abbreviations described in this article, though. But the people described there are facing the same constraint as I in trying to put out a daily newsletter: time. It simply takes too long to key in the words correctly in the King's English. Just be happy you get verbs, and take the spelling variations as the price of getting today's content today. "Language and languages change," said Carolyn Adger, director of the Language in Society Division of the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington. "Innovating with language isn't dangerous." And for now, I will take that to be the final wrd.
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