Everyone should just relax, say linguists(语言学家). They believe Netspeak is in fact more of a good thing. David Crystal, from the University of Wales, argues that Netspeak and Internet create a new language use and the almost lost art of diary writing has been picked up again. Geoffrey Nunberg, from Stanford University, agrees. “People get better at writing by writing,” he says, “②Kids who are now doing text messaging, e-mail, and instant messages will write at least as well as, and possibly better than, their parents.”
③Linguist James Milroy says, for centuries, it is believed without exception that young people are harming the language. ④And you can bet your bottom dollar that when today’s teenagers become tomorrow’s parents, they too will think this way, Milroy argues that languages do not and cannot become “corrupted”; they simply change to meet the new needs.