Melbourne, Dec 3 : Individuals who are proficient in reading and writing have good communication skills, as far as text messaging is concerned, says an Australian psychologist.
The report, which has been presented at the Australian Research Council Research Network in Human Communication Science conference in Sydney, overturns the commonly held view that texting is spoiling our spelling, according to researcher Dr Nenagh Kemp.
To reach the conclusion, Kemp, a psychology lecturer at the University of Tasmania, asked 55 undergraduates to read and write text messages using normal English and abbreviated text language, which she branded "textisms".