Complaints about the new language of swift communication are not limited to concerns about clear and understandable communication. Many fear the destruction of language’s charm and diversity. “It is the relentless onward march of the texters,” writes Humphrys, “the… vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours eight hundred years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.”