David Crystal
David Crystal
David Crystal OBE FBA FLSWis a British linguist, academic and author...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionEducator
best evidence frequently kids likely literate manipulate people shows spell teaches texting
Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.
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Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar.