http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/28/the-linguistic-miracle-of-texting-john-mcwhorter-at-ted2013/ The TED Blog shares interesting news about TED, TEDTalks video, the TED Prize and more. Mon, 20 May 2013 01:01:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/28/the-linguistic-miracle-of-texting-john-mcwhorter-at-ted2013/comment-page-1/#comment-35416 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 23:12:35 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=70161#comment-35416 When the texts of teen-age girls communicate the same complex thoughts as formal language I will acknowledge that the quality of their reproductive ability as worthy of use.

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/28/the-linguistic-miracle-of-texting-john-mcwhorter-at-ted2013/comment-page-1/#comment-32973 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:14:48 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=70161#comment-32973 [...] John McWhorter, “The Linguistic Miracle of Texting” Another favorite, McWhorter’s TEDTalk is about the emergent complexity of texting, which he [...]

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/28/the-linguistic-miracle-of-texting-john-mcwhorter-at-ted2013/comment-page-1/#comment-32520 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:49:15 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=70161#comment-32520 [...] said, “You have to change the composition of the soil to get a different result.” And linguist John McWhorter reassured us that consumers and youth, in particular, are not losing themselves to an unrefined, [...]

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/28/the-linguistic-miracle-of-texting-john-mcwhorter-at-ted2013/comment-page-1/#comment-32369 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:19:49 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=70161#comment-32369 [...] fall of literacy, turning writing into an informal landscape that neglects the tenets of language. But during his TED talk, linguist John McWhorter introduced a more positive view of the language-changing phenomenon: [...]

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/28/the-linguistic-miracle-of-texting-john-mcwhorter-at-ted2013/comment-page-1/#comment-32365 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:40:13 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=70161#comment-32365 [...] LOL has been grammaticalised. It’s now a pragmatic particle, what McWhorter in a more recent talk (not yet online) calls a marker of empathy and [...]

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/28/the-linguistic-miracle-of-texting-john-mcwhorter-at-ted2013/comment-page-1/#comment-32072 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:06:04 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=70161#comment-32072 [...] Source: http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/28/the-linguistic-miracle-of-texting-john-mcwhorter-at-ted2013/ [...]

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/28/the-linguistic-miracle-of-texting-john-mcwhorter-at-ted2013/comment-page-1/#comment-31771 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:17:28 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=70161#comment-31771 Reblogged this on The Red Elm and commented:
I admit that emoticons and LOL have crept into my e-mail. McWhorter may see this phenomenon as a linguistic miracle and, as a linguistics major, I try very hard to accept evolution but I do wonder if it makes people take me less seriously, when I slip up and include web-speak. :-(

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