Texting Ruining Vocabulary
Fabus, Colleen (2009-06-02)

>>INTERVIEWER: Can you give us your name, and what your story is about?
>>COLLEEN FABUS: Colleen Fabus.  My story is about, I guess, the English language.  How we all love texting and talking online, but it's kind of ruining how we write and everything.  Because I remember this one time I wrote an essay for English.  And I wrote it all out and I thought it was perfect, and I got it back and I'm like, "What's wrong with it?" And she's like, "Look at your grammar and everything." I wrote 'know' with no 'w', and 'with' with a slash, and 'you' with just a 'u', and it's, I think, just kind of ruining, it's good, but it's kind of ruining our language.  I guess that's all, I don't know.  But yeah, we had to talk about this in sociology.
>>INTERVIEWER: We did? 
>>COLLEEN FABUS: Yeah.
>>INTERVIEWER: Or you did?
>>COLLEEN FABUS: I did.  So, I don't know what else to say. [Laughter]
>>INTERVIEWER: Ok, thank you.