Texting: A New Language?

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Recently I received this text from a friend at home:

“Wts up how ru n hows D.C.? cnt wait 2 c u lmk a good time 2 vst ty ttys!”

Translates to:

What's up, how are you and how is D.C.? I cannot wait to see you and let me know a good time to visit. Thank you, talk to you soon!

Is language this simple because of texting, or does texting have to be this simple because of language? Would it have taken much more time to text the correct version, or is texting making us grammatically lazy?

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