a summary of ted talk-texting is killing language by john mc whorter

 In this ted talk, the speaker was john mcWorther , his idea is about texting is killing language. He said that, basically, language has existed for about 150.000 and since that time people talked. That's what we're probably genetically specified for. That's how we use language most while writing come along severalr years later.  So first there's speech, and then writing comes along as a kind of artifice. Speaking is very different to writing, we see language written so often, tthat's what language is, but actually what language is, is speech. They are two things. After that, the speaker start talking about an old history about writing and speaking which is quite long. Then,  texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts. No body thinks about its structure when texting bt now we can write the way we talk. And it's a very interesting thing, but nevertheless easy to think that still it represents some sort of decline. for example, there is in texting a convention, which is LOL. Now LOL, we generally think of as meaning "laughing out loud." And of course, theoretically, it does, and if you look at older texts, then people used it to actually indicate laughing out loud. But if you text now, or if you are someone who is aware of the substrate of texting the way it's become, you'll notice that LOL does not mean laughing out loud anymore. It's evolved into something that is much subtler. Another example is "slash." Now, we can use slash in the way that we're used to, along the lines of, "We're going to have a party-slash-networking session." That's kind of like what we're at. Slash is used in a very different way in texting among young people today. It's used to change the scene.

The way  the speaker is seeing texting nowdays is  seeing is a whole new way of writing that young people are developing, which they're using alongside their ordinary writing skills,and that means that they're able to do two things. Increasing evidence is that being bilingual is cognitively beneficial.