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"If you've ever looked at a teenager's text message and thought it looked more like a kindergartener's scrawl, you might not be far off.
Middle school students who frequently use "tech-speak"—omitting letters to shorten words and using homophone symbols, such as @ for "at" or 2nite for "tonight"—performed worse on a test of basic grammar, according to a new study in New Media & Society."
The survey was only 226 students (Grade 6 - 8) so the sample size is small. Some of the interesting points were that students who received text message that used "tech-speak" were more like to send messages back in "tech-speak" and it did not matter if the students were male or female, although "teenage girls usually receive twice as many messages per month as boys do."
