2b or not 2b? | Review | guardian.co.uk Books

July 6, 2008

Children could not be good at texting if they had not already developed considerable literacy awareness. Before you can write and play with abbreviated forms, you need to have a sense of how the sounds of your language relate to the letters. You need to know that there are such things as alternative spellings. If you are aware that your texting behaviour is different, you must have already intuited that there is such a thing as a standard. If you are using such abbreviations as lol and brb (”be right back”), you must have developed a sensitivity to the communicative needs of your textees.
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