If you don't understand the title above, you're old, and not contributing to the danger text messaging poses to conventional writing. One can almost chart the rise in access to mobile devices by teenagers and correlate that rise with the amount of college kids taking remedial writing courses. I'm sure some education departments have done more studies like this, but I'm more suprised at the surprise from the mass media. Or will it soon be politically incorrect to judge texting as bad grammar and bad spelling, like when the diversity crowd tried to elevate "ebonics" to be taught in ESL programs? I'm not so sure that'll happen, since too many white rich kids have already picked up the bad texting habits.
Title translation: Oh my God! Texting is bad for you. Really!
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