Capitalization, punctuation, good spelling and proper grammar are falling to their imminent demise as the evolution of this new acronym riddled language, known as "Tweetspeak" takes center stage. ... In the article "Twitter vs. ... However so much of texting and tweeting is manipulating the phonetic sounds of a word, and not manipulating the spelling of a word, that makes me question Crystal's argument that children wouldn't be good at texting without literary awareness. ...

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