Texting erodes kids’ grammar skills, study says

Have teens? Then you’re likely used to seeing them lighted by a cellphone screen glow.

But a study says the hours kids spend tapping notes is killing their grammar skills with every LOL. With “the culture of mobile communication, quick back and forth, inevitably, there are compromises on traditional, cultural writing,” said S. Shyam Sundar of Pennsylvania State University’s Media Effects Research Lab, which did the study.

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