2b Or Not 2b?

Rumours of the death of lan­guage by tex­ting have been slightly exag­ger­ated. We will not see a new gen­er­a­tion of adults grow­ing up unable to write proper Eng­lish, says lin­guis­tics pro­fes­sor David Crys­tal:

[On the con­trary], it is merely the lat­est man­i­fes­ta­tion of the human abil­ity to be lin­guis­ti­cally cre­ative and to adapt lan­guage to suit the demands of diverse set­tings.… In tex­ting what we are see­ing, in a small way, is lan­guage in evo­lu­tion. Tex­ting has added a new dimen­sion to lan­guage use, but its long-term impact is neg­li­gi­ble. It is not a disaster.