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Teens Language Shortcuts Provide Teachable Moments

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Decades ago teachers would despair when we used slang in our conversations. But to use slang in our writing never occurred to many of us.
Today’s teens are different. The line between their everyday conversation and text message shortcuts is blurred. An MSNBC report says that 2/3 of teens today use emoticons, shortcuts (like LOL) and [...]

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