My View: Are electronic media making us less (or more) literate? – Schools of Thought - CNN.com Blogs

My View: Are electronic media making us less (or more) literate? – Schools of Thought - CNN.com Blogs

"U kno wat i mean?"

You might think that text messaging with a young person today would be enough to make an English professor scream - and particularly an English professor who now works for the Modern Language Association, that keeper of the rules of English style. The kids today can't write, you've surely heard it said, and new technologies are to blame.