For centuries, written communication was tinged with formality and finality. But since the emergence of casual forms like texting, using proper grammar can be fraught with misinterpretation.
- Director, Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing, University of Pittsburgh
Can emojis be used to tell stories, and if so what kinds of stories can we use them to tell? The National Young Writer’s Festival, which opens today, aims to find out.
Long before ‘sup’ and ‘hwu’ there was ‘Hw r u ts mng?’
Shakespeare didn’t ‘lol,’ but he did ‘ha, ha, he.’
Don’t listen to the naysayers. New ways of communicating have created a wealth of new opportunities to harness – and study – language.
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