Have you ever wondered when this phenomenon of not leaving spaces between words come about? It's quite silly actually, don't you think? Especially when there aren't even capital letters anymore. But if you think about, everybody does that nowadays. Teenagers, adults, working professionals and even teachers. Yes, teachers also don't give a fuck anymore. Grammar, punctuation and standard English, please make way for technology.
Think about it. With the internet becoming so much of a part of our lives these days (some teenagers might even say that it
is their life), it's no wonder that kids these days see their standard of English drop dramatically. When you send an email, it is now perfectly acceptable to use all letters in lower casing, for e.g edwardsam@gmail.com. You all know my name is Edward Sam, with capital letters for the 'E' and the 'S' but when it comes to email addresses, every name and word is melted down and mashed into a bastardization version of the original phrase. In fact, did u know that email is actually short for electronic mail, and the very popular @ (now pronounced 'at') is actually a symbol for Alias (yes the name of the show starring the very hot Jennifer Gardner), and is used for people with two names. It has roughly the same meaning as aka (also known as). For e.g, James Tan may be a converted Muslim and so he would have his original name and a Muslim name so his name could be James Tan@ Farhan, or something along that line.
And of course don't forget websites. Take a look at this very website. Of course the proper way of typing it would be 'My rantings and opinions' but somehow web addresses don't allow you to do that and so for every website you go to with more than two words in it, you gotta mergeitassuchandifthewebsitenameislongitlooksdamndumb. Like the immensely popular myspace.com. What the hell is myspace? It does mean 'My Space' right? Why join the words? As I've mentioned, we
all have to make way for technology.
When I get older one day, I seriously would not be surprised to see kidstypinlikethatbecausethatshowtheydoitonthecomputerwhichistheonlythingtheyusetowriteanymorebecausetherewouldnolongerbepapertowriteon.
Okay, I don't expect anyone to get that sentence even though it does make sense. With the prevalence of text messaging these days and trying to squeeze everything you wanna say in those 160 characters, Wt 2 do? try 2 shrten lor n tk out as mny vowel as pssbl. cuz we no nd vowel 2 undrstnd msg oso. Effective communication you say? Perhaps. Who am I to argue against the massive power of the internet?
Ignore me, I'm just an old fogey. But I believe that the maggi mee generation of today (which includes me, unfortunately), have to put in extra effort to retain what little writing and linguistic abilities they have left.
I don't have much left. Hence this blog to improve my writing. However it's ironic because everytime I read my blog I have to typelikethis.
Oh well. I shall write a more light hearted entry the next time round.
edwardsam
10/04/2007 08:29:00 PM
