BRB (be right back), gr8 (great), cya (see you) – it’s a lot easier to use shortcuts (快捷方式) when we text, isn’t it? The average American teen sends 60 text messages a day, and you can imagine that most of them are full of abbreviations (缩写). But while we might think nothing of it, there’s an ongoing debate (辩论) that text messaging can have a bad effect (影响) on people’s grammar. Many believe the abbreviations are giving students bad habits when it comes to spelling and punctuation (标点).