Lightning in a Bottle

IM (instant messaging) has started to infiltrate into language arts classes. The Baltimore Sun talks with some teachers and students about the inadvertent use of the many abbreviations and inventive spellings that are used in text messaging (btw for “by the way”, gtg for “got to go”, or my personal favorite “pos” for “parent over shoulder”). The article is at www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/carroll/bal-ca.instant05apr05,0,4736145.story. There is actually some research that correlates use of email and instant messaging with higher test scores, so all that writing is doing something good, even if it isn’t spelling.

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