Texting is not the reason for the abolishment of language. In fact, it is actually helping language by increasing our overall use of it. “Texting is writing the way we speak”, according to John McWhorter, a linguist and activist. He says this in a Ted Talk called "Txting is Killing Language. JK!!", about whether or not texting is killing language. He believes that texting is not hurting language. Texting is a very fast system that is revolutionizing quickly, but is also bringing characters, other than letters, into the American Language. This character is an emoticon or emoji. While texting is not killing language, emojis are questionable. They are not words, but are used so often to the point where emojis are all some people use. If emojis
