Some people believe that texting is ruining the English language, and that it is penmanship for illiterates. People are bothered by the linguistic rules that it breaks. A lot of the time when people are texting they are not spelling out all the words completely that they usually would, or even using proper punctuation. When people write like that they may come off to other people as unintelligible. David Crystal successfully proves to his readers through facts and examples that this is not true. In fact he believes that texting has added a new dimension to language use. If people do not already have some English skills they are not going to be able to text very well. People need to already have a pretty clear understanding of language use.
