This texting language has grown into such a separate communicative medium that there is an entire Wikipedia page dedicated to it. Texting has definitely affected the state of grammar to a greater ...

Regular readers of this column will know that I am suspicious of cyberspace innovations — from Facebook to MySpace to Second Life — that substitute the accumulation of “friends” for actual friendship, ...

Texting has definitely affected the state of grammar to a greater extent. The ubiquity of texting is so great that almost everyone text regularly as their main method of communication. We as humans ...

Despite this longstanding dependence on grammar in our daily communication, a new communication medium has emerged in the last decade, which has generated unprecedented flexibility in our use of ...

Why did texting become so popular so quickly? Partly because texting was less expensive than voice on mobiles, reasons David Crystal in ‘ Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 ’ (www.oup.com). Apart from the economic ...

One lazy day, my dog ate my dictionary. He really did. When I got to him, he had gone up to chewing up to “P”. But I had no choice after that but to throw away that humongous word library. One, ...

Are you a “quality texter”? How about a “light-touch”? Or perhaps you’re more of a “texts of service” kind of person? If you’re familiar with love languages, or you’ve recently spent time on TikTok, ...

Are you a “quality texter”? How about a “light-touch”? Or perhaps you’re more of a “texts of service” kind of person? If you’re familiar with love languages, or you’ve recently spent time on TikTok, ...

Are you a “quality texter”? How about a “light-touch”? Or perhaps you’re more of a “texts of service” kind of person? Put simply, your love language is your way of expressing and receiving love. As ...