Texting For Family Harmony

from the the-family-that-texts-together... dept

We've had plenty of stories about how technology like email and instant messaging have helped families stay in better touch and be closer overall. The latest is a series of stories suggesting text messaging is bringing families closer together. For all the stories about how technology isolates people and pushes them away from more social interaction, there are plenty more stories like this. Maybe the world is finally realizing that technology is being used to improve communications, not keep people away from each other. Well, maybe not in all cases.

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    'Texting' is not a word

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    babarum, Oct 10th, 2004 @ 9:35pm

    Weird, but changing nouns into verbs is rather weird.

    Besides, texting doesnt sound right, good reason too, it is a noun.

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    Re: 'Texting' is not a word

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    Mike (profile), Oct 10th, 2004 @ 9:43pm

    Hmm. Who let you determine the language? It's in fairly common usage (212,000 Google results), including the BBC, the NY Times, the Economist and CNN. I'd say we're in pretty good company. Some dictionaries already include it.

    I think it's pretty clearly accepted as a word.

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