Please sign here to become a text-donor. Come again? That’s right; now researchers are looking for more than just livers and spleens from organ donors to conduct research on. Linguistic researchers from three Canadian institutions—the universities of Montreal and Ottawa, and Simon Fraser University are working together on a project called Text4Science, a global project to collect 100,000 text messages. Researchers are hoping to disprove the theory that texters are lazy and use informal language to text friends. Your text messages are more than just a collection of letters on a tiny screen, they are linguistic proof of our evolving language and culture. So next time you’re about to erase those week old drunk texts, think twice and send them in here. Make your texts matter.
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