“Digital natives” are bringing super-concise text talk into everyday spoken words (Image: Sven Hagolani/Corbis)
Editorial: “Txtpsk is a stimulating force in language evolution“
THE past few decades have seen a democratisation of written language unprecedented in human history, driven by digital media. Thanks to more than 2 billion internet-linked computers and 6 billion cellphones in the world, we are all both authors and audiences – our daily discourse playing out via millions of words typed onto their screens.
For some, this is a process where “more” inexorably means “worse”: into a shadow of former glories.…
