Game violence stimulates 'textspeak,' concludes study of 12
Dr. Chow Yuan-hua, a psychiatrist at the Veterans General Hospital in Taipei, has amazingly, using just twelve subjects, discovered why young adults (and even more mature adults) have such low language proficiency -- why we often shorten our words and confuse numbers for letters. The culprit: vide0 gamZ. V1ol3nt vide0 gamZ.
According to Dr. Chow, 'textspeak' is a symptom of gaming. As we spend more and more hours playing violent games, the blood circulation in our brains' frontal lobes significantly reduces, diminishing our ability to carry out higher mental activities, like proper speech. "[Parents] have to try to keep [their kids] away from [violent] games, if they don't want to receive any more 'textspeak' messages," warns Dr. Chow.
[Via VH1 Game Break]
