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Is Twitter jargon pushing English to resemble Hebrew?
As Twitter and text messaging push vowels out of English to economize on space, could the language end up looking more Semitic than Germanic? I’m used to seeing abbreviations on Twitter, Gchat, and SMS. But I was surprised recently when an editor closed an email with “Rgds.” The “s” on the end helped me guess that…
By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat June 20, 2012
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