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Date Posted: 13:55:51 01/23/08 Wed
Author: Rana
Subject: Re: Help needed
In reply to: Roger 's message, "Re: Help needed" on 17:08:35 01/20/08 Sun

>His answer to question 7 is very perceptive.
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>Hi, Jay!
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>Roger
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and to question No. 6 too... he is a smart boy, no surprise, of course, him being Tina's son. Thanks Jay, and thanks Tina..

BTW, Tina, the study was in Arabic, otherwise I would have e-mailed it to you. But I can summarize the findings as this:
I questioned 2 groups: the first goup consisted of 9 native speakers and Johney Reb and the second group consisted of 10 Arab speaking people who use English (txt language) in their messages and to chat on messenger.
Only 3 persons of the English group expressed concern over the way txt language is affecting written and spoken English, others were confident that there is no risk of this trend taking over classic language.
7 out of the 10 arabic speaking interviewees said it is affecting the Englsih language and that they wouldn't prefer Arabic to have same flexibility (it is hard to shorten Arabic words same way as you could in english).

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