Does abbreviating a word to make it shorter quicker and easyer to send help with spelling or decrease our own knowledge of how we learnt to spell when younger.
Will street signs, posters even newspapers eventually become this new form of language that we lose real spelling to it ?
in benefitial terms it has proven that Sms language has helped south african people learn to spell
http://www.itnewsafrica.com/?p=904
LOL is now in one Major Dictionary in the world as it has become apart of our own language, even with people saying lol in the general public when something is funny or humorous to them.