Education: Is text messaging restraining or liberating the English language?

As a relatively new form of day-to-day communication, text messaging has introduced way of communicating in the form of shorthand language.

According to a study from onlineSchools.com, 8 trillion of these abbreviated messages flew back and forth between cellphone users in 2011. That amounts to 15 million messages per minute.

While these new "words" are certainly convenient - and even innovative - not everyone sees them as a good thing. Educators, in particular, report reading more "textese" in students' work and less proper grammar.

Our generation might be privy to the meanings attached to TMI or ROFL but what about our parents and grandparents? Will we soon lose all communication with these people? Probably not.

Everynow and then, new words crop up and even the old-young needs to learn, It just gets treaky daily to know you have to re-learn a special Texting English to talk well in the Social-Sphere.

#$#$$ that feeling when you get a ROTL and you are wandering "what is this again"