This new generation seems to have developed an allergic
reaction to the grand language to which we all take for granted.
From participation in chat rooms, bombardment of the twitter-sphere,
and the casual preoccupation with SMSing; I have taken note the complete disrespect
towards the use of punctuation, grammar, spelling and the use of capitals.
Now, sure – I’ve probably made mistakes in my previous posts
and indeed fallen prey to err in this rant, however I can claim to at least make the effort.
No doubt
I’ve forgotten some of the principles to the elegant use of the English language,
but not to the point that my next sentence would look this…
wen i want 2 say sumthin i just 4get da need ta use any off
it word 2 ya mumma
Sure we could argue it’s still legible to understand but
would it have been all that hard to press the SHIFT key a couple of times, use
a comma, click on available spellchecker or for the love of all things beautiful, re-read
it before one pressed SENT.
Apparently not.
I too understand the need to reduce the amount of text you
wish to send due to the limitations of certain mediums…such as the maximum of 140
characters per tweet.
But does “Hey, check out this picture of a Koala hugging a
tree last Tuesday when I went to Caversham Wildlife Park in Perth http://imgur.com/a/zU5sH” have to end up
looking like:
check out da pic of me huggin a koala lol in da park ftw!!!!!!
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