For those of you who get brain seizures while trying to decode these kind of sentences it reads : Whoever created this method of typing should be taken out back and shot. If you couldn’t read that sentence at first glance chances are you probably endorse it.
If there is one thing that is disrupting the English language for years to come it is the invention of the text message. Y’know – that little feature on your cell phone that lets you talk to someone without having to deal with any kind of awkward silence moments that telephone conversations normally create. You probably see it as a convenient method of communication, whereas your parents see it as a waste of ten bucks a month (I know mine do).
Text messaging in its short lifespan has probably set the English language back a good million years. If that doesn’t seem likely, then maybe the young Irish text messengers
will be more convincing. Though to some it may be obvious that text messaging it just one notch away from going back to cave man drawings, others think the very opposite.
Ruining? RUINING? It's expanding our language. It's making it more compatible with a write-faster short-message society. When people started saying 'why' more often than 'wherefore', there were no doubt old-fashioned starchies[sic] around then who argued that was wrong.
Personally, I hate the text message code lingo . When I do text message my friends I try to be as reader friendly as possible, unless I’m in a rush but even then it doesn’t look like some alien language. I have enough problems with regular English spelling and grammar, if text lingo gets adapted into everyday usage I’m going on a hunger strike.
It is hard to say whether or not this new mode of communication will ultimately be an positive or negative impact on future linguistics of the world, but one thing is for sure, if the dictionary starts listing text message lingo as actual part of the language, d en langauge as we knw itz fukD.
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