Web Semantics: linguist studies Twitter

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/watch-what-youre-saying-linguist-david-crystal-on-twitter-texting-and-our-native-tongue-1919271.html

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"Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it." (((Yeah, I reckon.)))

Crystal calls this a "moral panic" over "mythologies" – his clearest example being the belief that text messaging is destroying children's ability to spell. "It's all nonsense, but people believe it."

He addressed this...