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The author argues that the concern of parents, teachers, and other adults over the extensive use of text messaging by adolescents is misplaced, considering the phenomenon's effects on literacy, language, and society.
A reference containing nearly 20,000 entries for English language abbreviations including those used for slang, emoticons and text-messaging, Internet, scientific and technical terms, and more.
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that define 20,000 acronyms and abbreviations, including airport codes, colleges and university names, sports terminology, Internet chat room terms, and terms from scores of other topic areas.
