This is an impressive talk by David Crystal. Here is a world renowned expert on the English language tackling the myths (as he sees it) of texting and Twitter corrupting the language and leading to a generation that cannot spell and finds it hard to express themselves in more than a few clipped sentences.
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Inhaltlich sehr interessant und rhetorisch beeindruckend.
David Crystal veröffentlicht auch einen interessanten Podcast bei der BCC: Keep your English up to date. Darin geht es um neue Wörter, die Eingang in den Englischen Wortschatz gefunden haben.