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EUGENE, Ore. — A new University of Oregon study found that the language teen girls use in text messages and social media apps, like TikTok and Snapchat, is linked to day-to-day changes in their moods.

There are also trade-offs in creativity. Because the energy critic favors low-energy (i.e., high-probability) text, the model ...

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English teacher Carrie Beth Buchanan sees the effects of students’ growing up in an age when communication is done in an abbreviated text language and where they depend on autocorrect to automatically ...

“How am I even supposed to respond to this?” My friend shows me her phone screen, where her dad has replied to a long, complicated, logistic-filled text message with a simple “Ok 👍.” We’ve all been ...

How would you respond if this text pops up on your phone? Tomorrow, EMBM — miss AYOR!!! Could be trouble if you skip, but IANAL. LOL!!!! If you got all of that — GRATZ! — you’re certifiably text ...

Texting has long been bemoaned as the downfall of the written word, “penmanship for illiterates,” as one critic called it. To which the proper response is LOL. Texting properly isn’t writing at all — ...