I was at Walmart yesterday, and though Walmart isn't really known for its high volume of proper English speakers, I observed very disturbing evidence that the English language is at risk of becoming more like Spanglish or Ebonics.
So this girl, whom I estimate to be about thirteen or so, was arguing with her mother over something and said 'WTF'.
Now English was at one point German before the infusion of Celtic and Gallic languages. Anyone who is not a native English speaker will probably tell you that it is the hardest language to learn. And here we have people lacking the want to sound intelligent, or just lazy, using internet acronyms to replace everyday speech.
Having spent most of my high school years in a trailer park, I am a first hand witness to the devolution of English. I often fought the urge to correct people thirty years my superior as they made statements such as 'Come gitcher dog'. While this is atrocious, it is slightly excused by the fact that most trailer park denizens never finished the seventh grade. Unfortunately, the trailer class (not to be confused with the more prestigious lower class) is expanding and future generations will speak more like this.
But I believe telecommunications companies are to blame for what would otherwise be grammatically correct children. I, for example, can not text. When I try, a weird combination of letters come up such as lkswtry and mnhgity and when I try to pronounce these I get rushed off to a monastery for exorcism.
Now to make it easier, as well as on the internet, people have put everything into acronyms. And these acronyms have found a way into real life speech.
So, FCS, try and remember how to talk unless you want English to eventually morph in a bastard language like Cajun or Yiddish, Lol.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
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WTF?
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