A study by State Examination Commission in Ireland has come to the shock conclusion that text messaging is having a big impact on the writing skills of schoolchildren. The study says that Irish 15 year olds are "unduly reliant on short sentences, simple tenses and a limited vocabulary".
Tell that to Morgan Poyzgar, Pennsylvanian 13 year old who just won $25,000 Dollars on Monday for typing "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" in a texting contest run by LG.
Grammar, spelling and punctuation are very important, certainly, but the English language continually develops to fit the needs of its users. Is abbreviation the way the language is going? Or will we all be saved by T9?
(The quote in the picture is the first line of Joyce's Ulysses, an Irishman who wasn't exactly known for his conventional grammar).
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