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user-inactivated  ·  3024 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 10, 2016

I don't have time to find it just now, but some linguist (Mary Bucholtz, I think) did a study of nerdy high school and college kids before the rise of text messaging, and thought their linguistic quirks were mostly from speaking in the register of written English rather than spoken English, having spent more time reading than speaking. I'll see if I can dig it up later.