How big of a role does texting play in your life?
I talked with Anne Curzan, a professor of English language and literature, linguistics, and education from the University of Michigan about how it's changing the way we write and communicate.
Curzan says texting has become "the wild west of the written language," and she sees it as another genre of writing.
The use of the period for punctuation has seen some of the biggest changes as a result of texting.
Curzan says that one little dot can now have so many different meanings, and it's become more neutral now to have no punctuation at the end of text.
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— Lisa Barry is the host of All Things Considered on WEMU. You can contact Lisa at734.487.3363, on Twitter @LisaWEMU, or email her at lbarryma@emich.edu
