What is the difference between writing and texting? If you were to pose that question to youths from Generation Alpha — born starting in 2010 — many of them may be hard-pressed to answer. Members of ...

Do you cringe every time you see someone type ‘gr8’ instead of great? Or is your reaction more likely to be: lol? Text speech has become the newest manifestation of the English language, with its own ...

As Canadian teens develop a new lexicon for their text messages, parents are wondering if the texting lingo is contributing to illiteracy. A recent poll suggests instant messaging is a daily activity ...

“How am I even supposed to respond to this?” My friend shows me her phone screen, where her dad has replied to a long, complicated, logistic-filled text message with a simple “Ok 👍.” We’ve all been ...

Clarissa De La Paz said she has caught herself writing at school like she texts with her friends. "I'm just, like, 'Oh my gosh! I just said LOL,'" the high school junior in Corpus Christi, Texas, said ...

English teacher Carrie Beth Buchanan sees the effects of students’ growing up in an age when communication is done in an abbreviated text language and where they depend on autocorrect to automatically ...

Two South Korean teenagers have been crowned fastest texters in the world. Ha Mok-Min, right, and Bae Yeong Ho hold their trophies after winning the LG Mobile Worldcup World Championship on Thursday ...

Texting has long been bemoaned as the downfall of the written word, “penmanship for illiterates,” as one critic called it. To which the proper response is LOL. Texting properly isn’t writing at all — ...