What certain Prescriptivists have said about 21st century English:
John Humphries
"Raping our vocabulary", "Doing to English what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours".
Will Self
Finds the "Bowdlerisation of texting insufferable" - Bowdlerisation means something being coded and abbreviated to such an extent that it becomes like a puzzle to break it down and decode it.
Lynn Truss
Says she finds it an 'elicit delight' to leave out no punctuation and to spell things correctly. This implies that she sees herself as a rebel for not using text speak.
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