Wednesday, 30 June 2010

Internet, change and language

David Crystal


"I'm frightened to ask the next question!"
"Literacy is important: learning to read and write. The more you read, the more you write, the better"
"Opportunities to practice reading and writing"
"The more you text, the better your literacy scores. So the earlier you get your mobile phone, the better your literacy scores"
"Would you use your abbreviations in other circumstances apart from your mobile phone?"
"Punctuality and social behaviour"



1 comment:

  1. This video was particularly good, furthermore what socked me most, was this guy´s age. I could not believe my eyes, such an old guy talking like no one younger than him would do.
    I would like to underline that in a near future computer voice recognition will substitute texting, and we wont need to shrink words any longer.

    Cheers
    Jose

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