LOL, OMG and TTYL: parents and teachers worry that teenagers’ use of these and other forms of . Perhaps they will take comfort from a study suggesting that instant messaging (IM) actually represents “an expansive new linguistic renaissance”.
“Instant messaging represents an expansive new linguistic renaissance”
and Derek Denis at the University of Toronto, Canada, say teenagers risk the disapproval of their elders if they use slang, and the scorn of their friends if they sound too buttoned-up. But instant messaging allows them to deploy a “robust mix” of colloquial…
