Team A did a really good job overall, but for me this source most definitely helped. The information within gave me a new stance on how I feel about texting in general. Overall, it serves to explain how phonological skills are strengthened through the act of texting. Which when you think about it, makes a world of sense.  For 'textspeak' to work properly one has to have an understanding of phonetics. Terms like 'l8r' and 'b4' which serve the purpose of being shorthand due to the character limits on texting are read  aloud as their  normal counterparts, 'later' and 'before'. Though I have seen and read those shorthand terms before, I never really thought about how it was so easy to just read them as I would if they were spelled normally.