Tuesday, 22 June 2010

What happened to the English language?

Rant begins.

I despair at the lack of correct grammar in use today. I blame SMS and the Internet. I know that at the dawn on the SMS age, people had to make full use of their 160 characters. 10 pence, or however much you paid, didn't go very far in those days. Still doesn't, really. That 160 constraint meant that words had to be abbreviated, terms cut down to just the initial letters. CU L8R, bcos, shit like that.
Now, when the Internet became more accessible to people I thought that would stop and everyone would switch back to proper English. How wrong I was.
I don't claim to be the most eloquent person, and I'm sure I myself have a few slip ups where grammar and punctuation are concerned, but I'm not one of the retarded masses. I am able to construct a sentence, spell words correctly and get my point across with a minimum of fuss and to some degree of clarity. Most people who reside online, it seems, are unable to do this simple task.
Only just the other day I was sat on the bus and a woman, maybe in her 40's, sat in front of me and started sending a text. She had a blackberry, which is important simply for the fact that it was probably on contract with a text allowance of a few hundred messages. Why, then, did she choose to express herself in a way that I can only describe as, and I quote myself, 'fucking stupid'? She wrote things like, 'cant w8 2 c ma fewwa'. Eh? What? There's no apostrophe in the word 'can't', for one thing. Don't even get me started on why the fuck she spells 'fella' in such a fucked up manner. She then proceeded to say that she couldn't wait to be with, 'her chewwy twee and her bwakk cuwwants'. No, me either!
Maybe it was that baby talk shit that some couples do, maybe she was mentally retarded. Whatever the case, she's a fucking moron.

Before you all leap at me with shouts of, 'It's a free country! People can spell things any way they want!', let me defend myself by saying that, yes, I am being a totally judgemental prick. I don't care. I make every effort to write legibly and also to type in the same manner. To do things the way this woman does is plain lazy. It also shows a lack of eduacation. Why would you want to give people the impression that you were in the special class at school? That, maybe, you failed remedial English? That you are a fucking moron? I hope one of you who are reading this have an answer because I have no clue!

What I want, crave even, is a return to the use of the English language. It's a wonderful language that is criminally underused by the majority of the population. If it takes me going on a one man crusade and pointing out where people are going wrong then so be it. I don't mind being everyones hero. Fine. I'll take this job, gladly.

So let this serve as a warning to all of those who're misfortunate enough to, firstly, be on my friends list and, secondly, read this. Use correct grammar, spell words properly and avoid shit like LOL, ROFL and that 'nom nom nom' bollocks. It's childish and fucking stupid. I say so and you know I'm always right.

Rant ends.

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