Comments on: LOL is its own language: Q&A with John McWhorter http://blog.ted.com/2012/07/11/lol-is-its-own-language-qa-with-john-mcwhorter/ The TED Blog shares interesting news about TED, TEDTalks video, the TED Prize and more. Wed, 22 May 2013 00:05:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: John McWhorter: Txtng is killing language. JK!!! | Lugen Family Office http://blog.ted.com/2012/07/11/lol-is-its-own-language-qa-with-john-mcwhorter/comment-page-1/#comment-37669 Sun, 05 May 2013 20:35:58 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=60291#comment-37669 [...] that knowing how to parse “haha kk” means we’ll lose the ability to read Proust? No, he told the TED Blog: “Generally there’s always been casual speech and formal speech, and people can keep the [...]

]]> By: John McWhorter: Txtng is killing language. JK!!!|Renaissance Events http://blog.ted.com/2012/07/11/lol-is-its-own-language-qa-with-john-mcwhorter/comment-page-1/#comment-37415 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:33:17 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=60291#comment-37415 [...] that knowing how to parse “haha kk” means we’ll lose the ability to read Proust? No, he told the TED Blog: “Generally there’s always been casual speech and formal speech, and people can keep the [...]

]]> By: “Fingered Speech,” LOL, No Signal of the Demise of Language | KimberMedia http://blog.ted.com/2012/07/11/lol-is-its-own-language-qa-with-john-mcwhorter/comment-page-1/#comment-31897 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:39:09 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=60291#comment-31897 [...] you don’t have to fear for humankind. Formal writing will never go away, he says, even though those OMGs seem to creep in now and then. We can do both. And we [...]

]]> By: Bill Johnston http://blog.ted.com/2012/07/11/lol-is-its-own-language-qa-with-john-mcwhorter/comment-page-1/#comment-15276 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:59:34 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=60291#comment-15276 ” the language I’m talking about came about in 2004″
I don’t agree with this statement — it predates that. It was the instant messenger language before that. You could say that the “2004″ era dialect came about, but lol and other abbreviations were standard “message vocabulary” before that.

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