![]() ![]() Professor Crystal's studies have found around 2,000 new words developed as a result of the digital age, including terms such as blog and twittersphere. He said the digital age had not necessarily heralded a 'linguistic revolution' in the way critics had predicted and said the 'moral panic' of the potential change has not been justified. 'Young people read probably more than I did when I was that age.' Shakespeare or Charles Dickens, but have you ever seen a teenager not reading? 'People say young people don't read and write any more.'They may not necessarily read. 'This is because it focuses your mind on the connection between sound and letters. No.It helps you to spell better,' he said at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature in Dubai according to the Daily Telegraph. 'People say text messaging will harm your spelling. The linguist, who has written more than 100 books on the English language, pointed out a new generation is 'constantly' reading and writing online. Professor David Crystal, an honorary professor at Bangor University, said those who text regularly were found to be 'concentrating their minds' on the relationship between sounds and written words. It was condemned as a 'digital virus' with many fearing standards of literacy would plummet.īut text speak has not been the disaster for language many feared and one leading linguist has claimed it actually improves people's writing and spelling. A leading linguist has claimed abbreviating words in text messages is making youngsters' spelling better rather than worse (file image) ![]()
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