US: Professors not ROTFL at students' text language

[Francis Hult]

Mercury News

 

Professors not ROTFL at students' text language

 

College professors are anything but LOL at their students' recent writing habits. 

 

Not only are instructors not laughing out loud -- shortened to LOL in text messages and online chats -- at the technology-oriented shorthand that has seeped into academic papers, many of them also sternly telling students to stop using the new language even in less formal writing.

 

Full story:

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14856449?nclick_check=1

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