McWhorter talks about the overuse of 'lol' and how it has lost its significance, as in meaning, 'laugh out loud'. It is now used daily as almost a filler like 'umm' or 'like'. He then goes out to use some of these quotes;
"The idea is that texting spells the decline and fall of any kind of serious literacy, or at least writing ability, among young people in the United States, and now the whole world today."
"One thing that we see is that texting is not writing at all."
"If humanity had existed for 24 hours, then writing only came alone at about 11:07pm."
"Linguists have actually shown that when we're speaking causally in an unmonitored way, we tend to speak in word packets of maybe seven to ten words."
"Texting is very loose in its structure."
"Texting is...fingered speech."
"Increasing evidence is that being bilingual is cognitively beneficial. Thats also true of being bodialectal."
"Examine this linguistic miracle happening right under our noses."
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