Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Netspeak fosters creativity

Many schoolteachers, editors and parents profess to be "horrified by Netspeak"--the distinctive language that young people are using more and more to talk with each other on the Internet. This rapidly spreading digital dialect of English is doing more good than harm according to a panel of experts. "The Internet is <A HREF="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2270&ncid=2270&e=5&u=/krwashbureau/20050321/ts_krwashbureau/_bc_cpt_netspeak_wa">fostering new kinds of creativity</A> through language," said David Crystal, a historian of language at the University of Wales in the United Kingdom.

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