“We are living in a moment of seismic linguistic change, and attention should be paid—but not to errors. Our changing language signals evolution, not degradation. ‘OK,’ the most popular American word in the world, was invented during the age of the telegraph, because it was concise.”
Anne Trubek asks “Should We Care About Grammar and Spelling on Twitter?”
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