Will texting language like "thru" and "nite" replace traditional spelling? Author Annie Murphy Paul explores the issue in her weekly Time column.
"While some of these Internet-age innovations are frivolous or trivial — Shakespeare managed to amuse his audiences without recourse to LOL — other shifts may prove more meaningful. Beverly Plester is a psychologist at Coventry University in England who has conducted research on how young people express themselves in electronic media."
- Source: Time
