Love it or hate it, our interaction with our digital devices greatly influences the way we communicate. In fact, it has the potential to render the English language as we know it null and void given enough time

The internet is ruining language and this travesty should be stopped:A worldwide slackening of written and spoken language rules and decorum is eroding the foundation of our language.Text-speak and instant communication platforms are making us lazy in the way we read and write.It looks retarded

Researchers from Penn State recently found that, while text messaging allows tweens to send notes to family and friends in a quick and efficient manner, it may lead to a decline in their language and grammar skills. To begin, more and more tweens are utilizing techspeak (language adaptations) when they text. Techspeak is described as including shortcuts, like homophones, words that omit non-essential letters, and initials to compose a text message quickly and efficiently. The researchers found that those tweens who use it frequently often do poorly on grammar exams.

So it is with a certain amount of sanctimonious glee that I am able to point out that customers don’t like spelling and grammar mistakes. According to one survey, poor spelling and grammar is the transgression most likely to damage consumer opinion of a brand in social media.

Speed, relevancy, a dollop of wit and strictly no excess words are the key elements for a successful Twitter posting. In fact, the same formula could be applied to Facebook users or anyone looking to be engaging on a social media platform. But such factors, in turn, bring their own problems, especially for the bastion of good, old-fashioned grammar.

For instance, these words bear all the hallmarks of traditional tabloid writing rather than the standard essay structure formula, with frequent use of dashes instead of the text-book comma approach being an obvious example.

However, there can be no doubt that the pace and immediacy of social media does not bode well for the long-standing values of grammar.

Internet chatrooms and social networking sites are encouraging children to spell words incorrectly, new research suggests

A paper released by the English Spelling Society concludes that the internet has revolutionised the English language, and made misspelling the norm.

But this means that children who have been brought up with the internet do not question wrongly spelt words