OMG! It’s just so, like, now!

I love David Crystal’s latest blog entry. It’s basically a very well-informed and elegant way of saying ‘Get a grip!’ to someone who is worried that the world will end because the kids are talking in txt.

It’s a wonderfully intriguing concept though, teenagers actually saying OMG instead of ‘oh my god’ and LOL instead of ‘laugh out loud’. (Or, in fact, actually laughing out loud.)

I bet it’s just a really-short lived fad which will embarrass these kids in a couple of years, and then amuse them a few years after that. Just like their haircuts will.