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It's no ROFL matter: web-speak, text-talk and even :( are slipping into schoolwork

By Jonas Oransky,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 24, 2008 9:07 PM CDT

(Newser) – Two-thirds of American teens aren’t keeping their LOLs to themselves: They're turning in papers and lab reports with abbreviations, dropped punctuation, and other informalities inherent to Internet and text-message vocabularies, the AP reports. Kids who write blogs and have Facebook pages are more likely...   Read full story »

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