Texting...is it helping us?

I think texting is both helping and hurting people. I don't think texting helps with spelling because by abbreviating everything you forget or don't learn how to actually spell the word. Also it doesn't help with correct punctuation or complete sentences. However, it does help with creativity, phonology, and reading. It helps you to think creatively when you are coming up with words or creating figures from simple dashes and parenthesis as all as helps you with phonology because you have to process how a word is spelt and sounds and find an abbreviation that makes sense. As the article Can Texing Help with Spelling says "To abbreviate message as msg or tonight as 2nite, you have to understand how sounds and letters work, or how words are put together." It helps with reading as well for obvious reasons you have to read the texts.

Txtng is Killing Language. JK!! Talk with John Mcwhorter