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March 24, 2005

Netspeak good for English, experts say

Knight Ridder Newspapers: “The Internet is fostering new kinds of creativity through language,” said David Crystal, a historian of language at the University of Wales in the United Kingdom. “It’s the beginning of a new stage in the evolution of the written language and a new motivation for child and adult literacy.”

Posted by Oleg Ivrii at March 24, 2005 04:12 PM



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