March 11, 2005

AIM improves teens' writing skills

"Though plenty of adults grumble about e-mail and instant-messaging (IM), and the text messages that send adolescent thumbs dancing across cellphone keypads, many experts insist that teenage composition is as strong as ever - and that the proliferation of writing, in all its harried, hasty forms, has actually created a generation more adept with the written word."

OMG! ur j/k, right? LMAO, b4 I used AIM, I sooo wuz a bad writer, LOL!

...I won't hesitate to block you if you type like that.

I can actually vouch for this--e-mailing, IMing, texting, ehem...blogging--all good practice, especially when one is trying to hone one's rapier wit.

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