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Does feel a bit dated already. I only read about two thirds of this and lost interest. It is even possible to send longer messages, using a system called 'concatenated SMS', which breaks a long message down into smaller chunks, sending them in sequence, though not all wireless devices support it. The best parts of the book are where he debunks some of the myths around texting, especially the idea that somehow these acronyms or abbreviations are new - some date back decades, some centuries, some millenia! To those who are pedantic about grammar and adhering to strict rules, this book shifts your paradigm. Didn't talk much about the impact of texting on the developing world, but one can't have everything! The author of this book has an interesting, and positive, view on the texting phenomenon.

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I'm also aware, albeit tangentially, that the quality of student writing seems to be headed in the wrong direction in recent years, and I've been inclined to agree with those who blame that decline in part on the rise of text messaging.

Maybe not to the extent it is used today and certainly not with the technology we use today, but it has been around for a long time.

Its graphic distinctiveness is not a totally new phenomenon. Entertaining enough, did not rock my world.

Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 - David Crystal - Google Books

If you find alternate spellings and language play to be annoying, this book might open your eyes to the creative side of it. When you're limited to only characters and you're txrng charged by the message, you often have to find creative ways to use the limited typing space available to you.

Ebook This title is available as an ebook. Since most texting devices have a character limit, the use of text talk helps to broaden the information davkd is communicated. So, I am not someone who gets too flu I am one of those people who never got into the whole texting craze, primarily because I hardly ever use my cell phone and I rarely chat with my friends online. Nothing overly bad about it, but nothing particularly impressive about it either.

Gartner reported that text messaging generated around 70 billion dollars of revenue in Teenage texters are not ruining the English language nor are they turning into illiterate vandals with thumb problems.

'Gr8 Db8' Defends The Linguistics Of Texting

Texting is a crgstal only for people who don't unde This book is the first to take an in-depth look at the linguistics of texting. I've gained a huge respect for David Crystal over the past few years and so was open to his arguments on this subject despite being sceptical.

Africa was the fastest growing area inmoving from 6 per cent to 21 per cent use within the population in the four years sinceand passing million subscriptions mid-ear. Account Options Sign in. In this humorous, level-headed and insightful book, David Crystal argues that the panic over texting is misplaced.

The book is an excellent reality check and a crysta insight into an innovative communication medium.

Txtng - David Crystal - Oxford University Press

Having spent four years working at a helpdesk, I pretty much hate telephones; many is the time I've cursed the name of Alexander Graham Bell over the years. It is a type of language whose communicative strengths and weaknesses need to be appreciated. Want to Read saving…. I think that anyone who enjoys linguistics and words would be interested in reading this book. Besides these really cool, yet random factoids, David Crystal spends a great deal of time explaining all of the aspects of language found in texting - rebuses, initalisms, igograms, etc.

With the continued rise of social networking platforms that blur the distinction between text messages, online chat, and blogging, and with the move away from mobile phones with numeric keypads in favour of smartphones and tablets with touchscreens, the character text daviv may not be around in its current form for ever. There is a widely voiced concern that the practice is fostering a decline in literacy.

David Crystal is honorary professor of linguistics at the University gr Wales, Bangor. It is even possible to send longer messages, using a system called 'concatenated SMS', which breaks a long message down into smaller chunks, sending them in sequence, though not all wireless devices support it.

May 11, Julia rated it really liked it. The book does a great job in tje me that there is really nothing either deviant or inappropriate about how texting came to be.

In spite of this, David Crystal's book remains fresh largely due to its central argument that much of what appears distinctive about the linguistic forms used in text messages is not an aberrant novelty, but part of a long-established phenomenon of linguistic innovation and language play. The book is filled with nice and illuminating examples, the parallels to previous changes in our use of language were appropriate and thought provoking.

And some even think it is harming language as a whole. This is, for the most part, a dry and br8 academic read. If you ever have to come across texting in your daily life and who doesn't these daysand whatever your attitude to texting may be, you could benefit from reading this interesting little book.

Unless you have some strong interest in the subject and even then look for something newergive this one a pass. Some of the points felt a little outdated as texting is constantly evolving, but definitely an interesting read.

This was one that really interested me as text speak is something that really grates, but is also something I used a lot in crysfal teens!