Is Tweeter changing English?

[Dennis Baron]

Maybe it's that Twitter isn't changing much, but calling it Tweeter
is? just saying.
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On Nov 13, 2009, at 5:45 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

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> A friend has asked me if there are any studies on whether, and if so
> how, Tweeter and other limited-message media have affected other
> channels of English, spoken or written.  Simple opinions are not
> unwelcome also.
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> Joel
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