Teen writing improves as slang grows

Teen writing improves as slang grows.

This is a welcome tonic for all the solemn, scolding lectures about youth these days having poor command of English. ...the two-year study did find that today's teenagers are 10 times more likely to use non-standard English in written exams than in 1980, with even the most able pupils using colloquial words, informal phrases and text message symbols, such as 2 for 'too', m8 for 'mate' and u for 'you'...But today's teenagers are using far more complex sentence structures, a wider vocabulary and a more accurate use of capital letters, spelling and punctuation skills than in the past. I can get pretty up in arms about written language use, too, but the fact is, living languages change. What was slang yesterday is common parlance today.