This is interesting. I've been fascinated for some time about these little sub-languages (another one is the language used on road signs). On a slightly differ

This is interesting. I've been fascinated for some time about these little sub-languages (another one is the language used on road signs). On a slightly different topic, as long as we're going to mention the idea that texting is ruining literacy, we should also mention that there is a good argument that texting is actually having an enormously positive effect on literacy. The fact that so many students are communicating via written words means that, in many schools, it is now impossible to be both cool and illiterate. Suddenly there is a huge incentive to be good at reading. I have no idea how texting is affecting students with high levels of literacy, but I bet it is causing a significant drop in the number of students with very low levels of literacy. Does anyone know if this has been studied?