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

2013-08-30

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Does texting mean the death of good writing skills? John McWhorter posits that there's much more to texting -- linguistically, culturally -- than it seems, and it's all good news.

Talk by John McWhorter.


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