So how much influence did Txtng: The Gr8 Db8
This is an interesting little book examining the text messaging phenomenon from a linguistic angle. The writer points out that language often changes, that we’ve always used abbreviations and contractions, and that, basically, people need to get off their high horses and stop whining about how text messaging is ruining our culture and destroying the minds of a generation.
The book is reasonably short and entertainingly written. The appendices take up about 1/3 of the book and will tell you how to text people in eleven different languages. Always handy, one feels. The writing is intelligent and compelling and makes its points clear.
Ultimately I must say the book changed my views on texting. I always viewed it as conversations poor second cousin, and nothing worth spending time on. Now? I don’t think it’s the second coming of anything, but I have more respect, more tolerance and more interest, by far, than I had before reading the book.
In summation, and since I can’t resist, plz buy this book u will really njoy it cuz its really gr8 k?
