Joan Lee, from the University of Calgary (Canada), has carried out a study that reveals that the people who send the most text messages are also the most reluctant to accept new words . However, their experiments show those who consume more information in traditional media such as books, magazines and newspapers are more accepting of new words and even better able to understand their meaning.? "We think that texting encourages less restricted language but it is a myth," he says.
According to Lee, traditional print media expose people to a variety and creativity in language that does not exist in the exchange of colloquial messages between two people. And this affects, above all, the young members of what is dubbed the "texting generation".
