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All That Txtng May B Hrtng Kids' Grammar
Date:8/8/2012

By Alan Mozes
HealthDay Reporter

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 8 (HealthDay News) -- As mobile messaging has taken off, so has an abbreviated form of text-specific jargon, a kind of linguistic shorthand that helps speed up the texting to and fro.

But a new study warns that the widespread adoption of texting among so-called tweens could be undermining their grammar skills.

The concern stems from the results of standardized language testing and surveys conducted among more than 200 middle school students living in central Pennsylvania.

The more a young teen embraced shorthand while texting, the poorer their use of proper English in a non-texting context.

"I should first point out that this is correlational, not causal," stressed study co-author S. Shyam Sundar, co-director of the Media Effects Research Laboratory at Pennsylvania State University. "That means that while we see an association between texting and grammar problems among teens, we cannot say that one is actually causing the other."

"However, it is clear that compared to those who text very little, those middle schoolers who texted a lot did much more poorly in terms of their offline grammar skills," Sundar said. "[This] suggests that kids who are using a lot of word adaptations while texting -- saying 'gr8,' for example, instead of 'great' -- are unable to switch sufficiently back to proper grammar and spelling when not texting".

The study recently appeared online in the journal New Media & Society.

"Tech-speak" involves the omission of non-essential letters and the use of modern-day homophones -- shorter words or character sound-alikes.

Examples include replacing the word "your" with "ur" or using the figure "2" for the word "to." The lingo also uses wholesale abbreviations and acronyms, such as the immensely popular shorthand "LOL," used to convey "laughing out loud."

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