However, exclamation marks were overused. Researchers found 35,171 examples in total, with some young writers using five at a time. The study of more than 31million words will be compared with future research to see how written language evolves.

但是，感叹号却被过度使用了。研究人员发现35171次这样的实例，一些孩子竟然一次点了5个感叹号。这个包含3100万个单词的研究将拿来和未来研究做对比，分析书面语言的演变过程。

Popular US fiction such as the Twilight vampire novels and films is thought to be fuelling the increasing use of American vocabulary and spelling.

时下热门美国小说《暮光之城》系列和由其改编热映的电影作品都促使孩子们越来越多地使用美式词汇和拼写。

Modern technology was also influential. Out of almost 300 references to ‘blackberry’, nearly half referred to mobile phones. But the researchers found a wealth of imaginative and inventive ideas.

现代科技也有很大的影响力。在孩子们的作文中，’blackberry’一词出现了300次，几乎一半指的都是黑莓手机。但是研究人员也发现了很多富有创造力又别出心裁的点子。

Fears that texting was corrupting children’s written work were unfounded, they said, with youngsters only using text speak when they were referring to a text message.

研究没有证实发短信会破坏孩子书面表达能力的担忧。研究人员称，这些年轻人只在发短信的时候才会使用有关短信的字符和词语。

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