RSA - Texts and Tweets: myths and realities

Texts and Tweets: myths and realities

24th Jun 2010; 13:00

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RSA Thursday

A huge mythology has grown up about the language used in short-messaging technology. Is texting destroying language, as some have suggested? Quite the contrary, the latest research suggests.

Join David Crystal, widely regarded as one of the world's pre-eminent language specialists, as he looks to the future of language, exploring the effect of technology on our day-to-day reading, writing, and speech.

Speaker: David Crystal, Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor and author of "A Little Book of Language" (Yale University Press, 2010).

Chair: Henry Hitchings, reviewer, critic and author of The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English (John Murray).

Suggested hashtag for Twitter users: #rsatweets