It's hard to see what the problem is. Language speakers and writers have always been inventive, and texting is just one further example of human creativity.
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Card 7
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It..is the latest manifestation of the human ability to be linguistically creative... In texting, we are seeing, in a small way, language in evolution
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Card 8
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Language is not, as we are led to suppose by the dictionary, the invention of academicians or philologists. Rather, it has been evolved through time...by peasants, by fishermen, by hunters, by riders
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Card 9
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Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.
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Card 10
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If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.
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Card 11
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They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; ****** our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.
