English Without End

Texting, the great debate TEXTING IS GOOD FOR THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Prof. David Crystal debunks the myths (S1Ep2 of It's Only a Theory , 11 May 2013) " illiterate " " ... and every one of those statements are a load of chicken droppings" "nobody sends a text without not be ing a point" "why are they leaving the letters out ?" "... the more you text, the better your literacy scores" "... abbreviations are new-fangled , cooked up by today's youth - not so". " textiquette " "... they'd look at me as if I am  nuts ." "... there are downsides to texting" 2b or not 2b?   ( The Guardian ) Video games testing  reading exercise KEY : 1. d 2. a 3. b 4. b 5. d 6. a 7. c 8. c