Always has and Always will

Whether texting conventions are supported by organized spelling reformists or not, can they possibly solve the difficulty of spelling our troublesome language? David Crystal, the author of “Txtng: The Gr8 Db8,” told me in an e-mail message that “there’s nothing in texting to suggest spelling reform,” noting that texting relies heavily on abbreviations, which he sees as creative stylings, not systematic improvements. He added that there is very little that is new about most of the abbreviations and lexical shortenings that make texting so maddening to so many. In fact, he said, with the exception of a few recent coinages like LOL, “virtually all the commonly used ones can be found in English a century ago.” For example, bn (been), btwn (between) and wd (would) can all be found in a 1942 dictionary of abbreviations.


Thought:
After reading this i thought to myself the majority of people these days are just ignorant at the fact language changes constantly and will continue to do so for the rest of time. the fact that this passage says that bn and btwn can be found in the dictionary proves that this ignorance. people need to accept change. going with the flow of change is much easier than going against the flow.