I feel the urge to find the bastard who invented texting and slap him in the head. Its not that I do not think texting is OK, I do, and using a smart phone with a full keyboard you can communicate quite normally.
But when it was first rolled out by Nokia on a cell phone in the late 1980s it was implemented on a phone keypad, which (as most of us knew who used “normal” cell phones back then) used the number keys for texting, meaning composing a text was tedious and protracted, which necessitated the use of acronyms to shorten the time needed to compose the message.
This quickly force fed a host of new acronyms into the communications world which are so commonplace now they have transcended the written word to the spoken word, and people actually “speak” the horrible abbreviations in normal conversation.
It’s quite normal to hear someone say LOL or OMG in a verbal conversation now, which I hate to hear. Bad enough I have to read this in a text message. There is something mildly insulting about seeing an acronym used in a text message, like I am not considered important enough to get the full words, I have to make do with an quick abbreviation.
It has got to the point now where something like this is quite normal:
Lol, wuz gr8 2 c u 2 but omg gyg ttyl!
Am I the only one who HATES to see this, a language butchered and an entire generation with little if any grammar skills anymore. To see this shit is now being slowly eased into verbal communication, and its being accepted is disgusting.
Soon we be like robots, our wonderful written and spoken languages abbreviated and reduced down to a sub set of three letter acronyms which we will mindlessly blurt at each other in tests and in the spoken word.
In 50 years we will not be able to comprehend written or verbal communications anymore, Like the beautiful language of Shakespeare has been morphed into our modern English, so our current language will be morphed into this modern dog shit abbreviated equivalent.
Rudge
By the way the person who invented texting was from Finland, he was called Makkonen and he had this brain storm in 1984. I cannot slap in the back of the head because he is no longer alive. Nokia were the first to put it in a cell phone.