John McWhorter: Txtng is killing language. JK!!!

This is a TED talk by John McWhorter in which he is explaining that writing is just a representation in the way we talk. He explains that there is an emergent complexity in fingered speech (texting). There is a new kind of "language" that is being created now that speech is in continuous change and therefore a new structure is created. [Published on 02-01-2013]

Posted by Eira Nylander Torallas on May 6, 2017

Tags:
Ideology;
Slang;
Stigma;
Grammaticalization

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