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Whoever cr8d dis method of ryTN shd B taken ot bac n sho

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.

Things That Make You go : Ugh! Volume 1

Journalism 101. Once thing that I’ve learned after watching many depressing hours of late night news: if it bleeds it leads. Or more specifically, if it accessible via TV, radio or Internet it is probably depressing enough to make you want to throw your TV out the window and disconnect your Internet from now till conditions improve. I decided to put together a short list of news worthy events that get the biggest ‘Ugh’ of the week.

Property of the Supreme Court.
Most people would probably agree that life is one of the most precious things you can have. But, when you are the producer of life the decision becomes yours, and only yours alone as to whether or not you want to be responsible for deciding whether you want to bring another life into the world. The Supreme Court’s decision to officially make Partial Birth Abortion illegal could probably be the beginning steps to overturning Roe V. Wade all together, and could ultimately eliminate a woman’s right over her own body. Bible thumpers don’t even have to use vivid images of fire and brimstone to scare women away from becoming impregnated and then deciding to abort the pregnancy half way through. They would only have to remind them that no matter how independent and free you think you are, in reality a bunch of self righteous old farts pretty much own your reproductive organs.

Virginia Tech
Very, very tragic. There aren’t enough words in the English language to fully express how screwed up this whole thing really is. When something horrific like what happened at Virginia Tech. takes place there is really no way to emotionally prepare yourself for something so shocking and unexpected. What could be addressed though is why after the first shooting the campus didn’t take steps to lock down the campus, which could have maybe prevented the cold-blooded murders. Check out our other blogs on Virginia Tech murders.

Feet to the Fire, Still a Liar
It is a sad state of affairs when the head of the Justice Department can’t even do his job right . When you start forgetting very vital, important events of your career it should be a signal that maybe you should start saving your daily activities to an external hard drive for safekeeping. This story gets the “Ugh” award of the week for overuse of the “I don’t know, nor do I remember” excuse.

Spiderman Sings?
Broadway was made for the lavish artsy world. Rounding out a week of ‘UGH’, the news that Spiderman could be heading to Broadway is equivalent to really bad bubble gum. It looks like it could work with it's pretty colorful hyped packaging, but halfway through the first show when the hype gets stacked against the final product it could make the audience think they're chewing on wet play dough: a nasty aftertaste and an empty wallet of disappointment.

Not Quite Jurassic Park

If there’s one debate that has no chance of ending any time soon it is whether or not humans, the Earth, and life as we know it were products of creationism, or an act of evolutionism. Obviously, there are arguments for and against both these ideas. Whether man came from a big old hairy thing dripping in drool, or a concoction from the earliest form of mad scientist, but less emphasis on the ‘mad’ and ‘science’ part.

However, according to a study done by NEWSWEEK at the end of last month found that 91% of Americans believe that God exists, and 87% do not accept the evolution as fact. I think I hear a bunch of scientists’ heads exploding.

I suppose if natural history museums illustrate the creation of man through the ages and into the human form then it would be fair to give believers of creationism a similar area of expression. A Creation Museum, to be exact. The museum, located in Kentucky, focuses mainly on the events that take place in the Book of Genesis. The museum provides an overview of the events in the Bible in a visual presentation that is probably equivalent to Jurassic Park, minus the re-creation of the flesh and blood man-eating dinosaurs.

I’m not sure whether it is better to be skeptical about the scientific basis of how things came to be, or to believe that everything was created for a specific reason with the use of divine religious powers. But I do wonder, whether it makes people feel better in believing that everything was pre-ordained from the get-go. If so, does creationism foster a sense of entitlement because you were created ‘as-is’ without having to evolve from any other being? Personally, I find it a wee-bit self-centered.