It's no secret that text messaging has changed the way we communicate, but it has also changed the meaning of sentences, punctuation, and grammar. So, we want to know, does proper grammar matter to ...

In the rankings of where you need to use proper grammar and spelling and sentence structure, text messages has to be in the neighborhood of last place. Right next to YouTube comments. It’s because ...

If you have teens, you’ve probably grown accustomed to seeing them lighted by the glow of a phone screen. Well, there’s some good and bad news coming from the hours they spend speed-tapping notes to ...

Email is a convenient and efficient form of communicationÖand very popularÖbut are people starting to confuse it with text messaging? We love email, not only in business, but in all areas of our ...

I don’t have to tell you this because you’ve seen it in every news story, on every TV channel and at every dinner table you’ve come into contact with over the last few years: everyone’s obsessed with ...

Together with my colleagues at Coventry University in Britain, Clare Wood and Sam Waldron, I looked at young people’s text messaging and grammar over the course of a year. We worked with 243 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jill Kitson: Welcome to Lingua Franca. This week: Why teach grammar in school? Melbourne University ...