Texting teenagers are proving 'more literate than ever before'
Teenagers are ten times more likely to use non-standard English in written exams than in 1980, using colloquial words, informal phrases and text-messaging shorthand — such as m8 for ‘mate’, 2 instead of ‘too’ and u for ‘you’. Despite this, the two-year study found that today’s teenagers are using far more complex sentence structures, a…