Study: Instant Messaging is Surprisingly Formal

Study: Instant Messaging is Surprisingly Formal :-)

Apparently, Instant Messaging isn't dooming the written language .. unless the standards have just been reduced to compensate!

Out of 11,718 words ... [t]here were also just 121 misspelled words.

Sheyeah, right. A buddy of mine, who is a great guy, can't write three words and have them all spelled correctly. I can overlook it in his case; he drives Truck and talks more than he writes. Other people with which I correspond, some of them (divided along national boundaries, actually) cannot write a proper sentence to save their lives.

I'd actually like to see the research on this one.