People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.
Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.
It's true and it's easily said that language is material, and something does materialise as one writes.
There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.
We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what a cranky guy would call correct - grammar.
When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke to someone or write a letter to a friend. And it's similar with new technologies.
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.
Why do only the Latin script when Nokia has a billion consumers? Typography is the bedrock of communication; it can really connect people.