Hehehe… that got you eh? TR’s Kate Baggott has another story about how texting and it’s ‘net related relatives are actually improving literacy (in spite of the A and O level English papers that are written in txt – can’t find a link right now… but it may be in the archives, even though New Zealand has allowed it now). Essentially, it’s because as we have seen, to be part of this new age, people must be literate in at least one alpha numeric based language as well as sounds and images.
It’s too early in the morning right now, but the last page of the article has an interesting thought on the literacy divide, if my brain engages today I’ll write on that.
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