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"Texting through mobile phones has a negative impact on a person’s linguistic ability to interpret and accept new words. A survey on university students about their reading habits, including text messaging, showed that those who texted more were less accepting of new words. On the other hand, those who read more traditional printed media such as books,newspapers and magazines were more accepting of the same words."
"Reading traditional print media encourages flexibility in language use and tolerance of different words,and helps readers to develop skills that allow them to generate interpretable readings of new or unusual words. In contrast, texting is associated with rigid linguistic constraints."
February 20, 2012 in Psychology Nuggets
