Saturday 28 January 2012

WhY d0 pEoPle tAlK liKe tHiS ?

After the advent of cellphones, SMS language came along and so did the extermination of English grammar. I get the logic behind SMS language but why anyone would put in additional efforts to capitalize every alternate letter is beyond my comprehension. 


What irks me more is modifying normal words in a miserable attempt to sound 'cool'. Believe me, 'kewl' is NOT cool. There is no rational explanation for typing in this disastrous manner.The sole purpose of SMS language was to reduce texting time. You're typing the same number of alphabets so you're not achieving that either!  
My sincere request, 'Puhleez' grow up and get a reality check or else, i'm 'sowwie' to say, but one fine day people will throw 'Rawks' at you and then only 'Gawd' can save you. 

Yet another annoying aspect, excessive punctuations.
Do you want to sound like you're on an adrenaline rush ?
What difference would it make if you typed "Hey!" instead of "Hey!!!!!!!!!!!"
It just makes you sound unnecessarily excited and personally, I find it kind of creepy. 

Using a zillion dots is also vexatious. An ellipsis consists of three dots. It's supposed to indicate a short pauses or breaks in the writer's train of thought not a mini coma.

And finally coming to chat abbreviations, I know you're in a hurry but you're not exactly the busiest person in the world. Why butcher the English language?
It won't kill you to write 'what's up' instead of 'Ssup' or 'wazza'.I can still fathom using it if you don't have a qwerty keypad. I honestly don't see the laboriousness in typing a complete, grammatically correct word when all the alphabets lay right in front of you. 

I blame it on our youth who are incapable of finding their own identity and hence try to ape the west. Typing 'ma' instead of 'my' won't make you American. Contrary to what you pseudos may think, it does not make you sound like a rap artist either.

Don't be ashamed of who you are and where you're from. Don't be a poser. Keep it natural. 

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