Who invented that language? You know which one I’m talking about … or shd I say u no wch 1 im tlkng abt?
It’s so daft, created I suppose by the multitudes who had to send text messages on their mobile devices. Agreed, it’s quicker than typing out everything in full, but it’s ridiculous. Anyway, these days most phones have Qwery keyboards, so there’s no need.
Most teenagers, and these days younger than that, would argue that they have their own type of language – old man. They even have whole magazines dedicated to this new lingo – hey, I even saw a small dictionary in the shops the other day.
Call me traditional, call me old, call me thick, but I think that it’s only on the social networking sites right now, but wait for a few years (probably months) and then it will pervade our school work and newspapers. Kids are already dropping their syllables and mixing their metaphors and speaking in lower class trash language, that I have to feel sorry for their teachers and tutors and examiners.
There is something to be said for preserving the old, because the old doesn’t necessarily have to be the outdated. I personally don’t particularly like Shakespeare, and I do like Stephen King, who can still string a sentence together without sounding trashy.
We need to be able to communicate properly without reducing our English to nglsh.
LOL
David Owen Nunes
David is many faceted, fascinating, fastidious, fair, fabulous and the other F word. He works in the Pensions Industry, plays occasional golf, and dreams of being able to write full time.
