Forget the 'death of writing' talk. Txt-speak is a new, rapidly evolving form of speech

John McWhorter, linguist and political commentator, at Columbia University, claims texting is a new form of speech and actually makes you smarter. He outlined the reasons why at the TED2013 conference in Southern California this week.

[via arstechnica and FastCompany]

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