You morons.
Look what you have done to the English language. Look at how you’ve defiled it.
Look at how we’ve managed to take every technological advance we’ve made in the past two hundred years or so and turn them into something designed to make us talk like cavemen. You can’t deny it – how we’ve managed to take this world of constant information and higher understanding and turn it into a verbal nightmare.
It’s bad enough that technology has become redundant; with every phone a computer, every computer a television, every television a clock, and every clock a phone. But now we’re so content with this constant stream of information that we can’t even take the time to formulate complete sentences. We’ve made a language for intellectual junkies. Every acronym and abbreviation costs you dearly. You’re trading your ability to speak for mindless drivel you find amusing for no more than a minute. Are you insane?
So much for attention spans.
You want proof? Take the time and actually use that technology for something besides Youtube. Go find a letter, any letter, from any time period from the Civil War to the mid 1950s. Now compare that letter to the past fifteen text messages you’ve written. Odds are good that you sound like a special needs child with crayons and a penchant for eating them. It’s not supposed to be like this, folks. We’re supposed to be improving language, not raping it.
It’s gotten so bad that if you use any kind of creative license, people simply won’t read. Yet if you write “wuts up,” you have an instant response. That, my friends, is inexcusable.
This does not, however, mean that you are allowed to use words you in no way comprehend, take five minutes to say what could be said in one, or repeat what you say incessantly.
So please, on behalf of the English language, stop being such a moron. Read a book or something.
- By Ben Fassett
