Is Tweeter changing English?

[Dan Goodman]

Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
> 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.

Correction:  Twitter.

I haven't seen Twitter terms showing up anywhere else online, except in
reference to Twitter.  I've seen text-messaging abbreviations on Usenet
and in mailing lists, but don't recall which ones.


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