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The post conquest aftermath

The post conquest aftermath

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

The death and murder of a language.

The past few years, according to me, have seen the slow, constant and agonizing death of English (at least English, as far as right now is concerned). It is dying, one language structure at a time.
Take verb conjugations. We have been taught several, the rules for which have been taught to us. The fact that we have forgotten the rules of conjugation is something else. But, that should not be an excuse for using what we are seeing/hearing/texting nowadays – I likes (when you like something), I wants, ‘you wanna hang out?’ and so on. We were not taught wrong grammar; we just learnt/use it incorrectly. Then, all those spelling dictations that your primary-school language-teacher took have gone down the drain. This becomes dis, that-dat, why-y, my-mah, awesome - ossum, with –wid and the heart pains to write more. Then there are new and horrible onomatopoeic words like – muaah (shudder). The noise in question is apparently made by the murderers when they distribute their (OMG, chho chweet) kiss of death. Terrible abbreviations like – LOL, ROFL, ROTFL, LMAO, LMFAO, ROTFLMFAO, etc. have been invented and disseminated. This enables the murderers to save time so they can do what they do best better – murdering. What about the misplaced sense of addressing people – dude, dawg, waddup, guys (ever heard a girl calling out to a bunch of her girlfriends using the word? “you guys?” Bell ringing?). Of course, the next challenge was to use bad verb conjugations to form bad questions like – you likes?
I have realized that most of these mistakes have, along with the grammar, all their vowels missing.
If one has to use this ‘language’, why don’t we actually use it in someplace useful (perhaps cell phone texting is fine), like, maybe the print media and save precious paper and ink and all that, while dropping vowels and bits of grammar? (OMG, I might have created a monster. The murderers might use “going green” as an excuse now).
There are times when going through these social networking sites just irritates the hell out of me. Being on these and surfing them was intended by me to be a small session of distraction, but it often is turning out to be a stressful experience.

My only message to all these murderers is dat IMHO, y’all shud STFU. You gets?

2 comments:

  1. good one :) and i better be careful ;)
    just imagine students writing answers like - thr r 4 methods - y dont v do this - etc etc...

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  2. 'lolz' :-) imagine the plight of the person who is new to English!!

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