Texting the English Language This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to ...

At first glance, texting seems like pure language with no metalinguistic context. Body language, facial expressions and vocal inflections don’t accompany the words. It is raw data, a rudimentary ...

Does texting mean the death of good writing skills? Linguist John McWhorter says that there's much more to texting — linguistically, culturally — than it seems, and it's all good news.

When it started in 1992, texting probably seemed like a swell way to quickly get a point across. Now, in the most ironic fashion, texting is something different altogether: a language barrier. I don’t ...

The new software learns phone users' unique "texting" language such as slang, mixed alpha-numeric phrases , emoticons, URLs and e-mail addresses. In addition, manufacturers and wireless carriers ...

Texting has become an incredibly common way of communicating in the 21st century. Back in 2011, the Pew Research Center reported that young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 sent around 110 ...

Texting properly isn’t writing at all — it’s actually more akin to spoken language. And it’s a “spoken” language that is getting richer and more complex by the year.

Texting got easier, but I still struggled. Today, I can see why texting has basically replaced speech: It's the ultimate, passive-aggressive way to communicate.

Does texting mean the death of good writing skills? Linguist John McWhorter says that there's much more to texting — linguistically, culturally — than it seems, and it's all good news.

The VoxOx Universal Translator is also the first service in the industry to provide instantaneous foreign language messaging translation across four major communication channels – text messages ...

The language we use in texting, it's looping back into our daily speech as in O-M-G or slash to change a subject quickly, or when people say, out loud, hashtag.