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(AP) The text messages on Margarete Stettner's cell phone are filled with shortcuts - like 'G2G' for 'got to go' and 'LOL' instead of 'laugh out loud.' Even when she isn't using her phone, the lingo sometimes makes its way into what she writes. 'It does affect, sometimes, how I do my schoolwork,' the 13-year-old said as she shopped in a mall, where cellular phones are as common as low-cut jeans. 'Instead of a Y-O-U, I put a U.' That alarms some linguists, who worry that the proliferation of text messaging - where cell phone users type and send short messages to other phones or computers - will enforce sloppy, undisciplined habits among American youths. Other experts, though, don't think the abbreviations will leave their mark on standard English...
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