Oh my God!!!!!!
These are exactly the words that came to my mind when I read my just turned eighteen niece’s message on google talk.....the message said “and I thought the past tense of think was thunk”
Where has all the grammar from Wren and Martin taught painstakingly by the teachers of the elitist school we sent her to gone, I wondered!!
Come to think of it, almost all the spellings and rules of written English seem to have changed in these modern times of the computers.
Now with is wid...enjoy is njoy...I am is M...that is dat ..the is d okay is k..friends is frens.....got to go is g2g be right back is brb and the list is endless. One has just to chat with some of these under thirties to get a full intro to this new lingo.
It is said that every language evolves with the passage of time and perhaps the need for speed in typing in contemporary times has led to the use of this abbreviated form of writing. In these times of multitasking when a person chats with many people at a time and does other work at the same time too, he or she would certainly need this kind of expression.
I first encountered this kind of English about a year and a half back when I came to Libya and started using chat windows to keep in touch with people back home. I have steadily got more and more familiar with this new age form of writing and got used to reading and comprehending it too...
Well....even if I do feel that the makers of the English dictionary would be turning in their graves, and even if the steadfast teachers of English would shudder to see what their students are writing...and even though I am not able to bring myself to express myself in this fashion...
I also find this lingo crisper, trendier, and younger !!
I love to read what they write to me in their hurry....
And I love to read the amazing messages they leave on their chat windows.
Maybe one day I will get into their groove too and amaze them....
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lol... i can kinda understand.. i suffered the same fate when i chatted with ashesh-amrisha for the first time... some idiots in my school still used lol for "lots of love" while signing off.. sigh....
and about the "maybe one day i will get into their groove too and amaze them" part, don't u think it's a tad wrong for u? u truly did amaze me the day u started the chat with the word "hey"..... that chat is still quite fresh in my mind... "-"
I heartily agree with you..Though these kids make me go mad almost all the times...whatever they write takes a normal person with all senses intact, triple the time to apprehend what they actually mean to convey...
Oh! God is all you will find yourself saying after reading what they write after sometime..
So, Cheers...
hey
nice article..
hehe
gud 2 read thru it..
jus thot i'll put in some more of this kind..
"lyf's gud.."
n "wassup?"
n "sry, dat was a typo.."
n "it's tuf 4 fyi"
hehe
(ps: typo is typing error
fyi is for ur info
er.. ur is your :P)
hehe....
very true didi
kabhi kabhi to even i feel ancient jab i chat to nyone after long time...
kal maine mummy ko sms kara ki "m n class". she didnt get what i meant...
n baad mein kheti hai ki "hum logon ka ullu banate rhete ho"...
n mujhe aaj hi pata chala ki lol means lots of love i always thought it meant laugh out loud...
lol (this time i used it for laugh out loud only)
:D
oh, i didn't know so much about this stuff,. maybe because i am never in a hurry!!!!!!!!
well done bua, you seem to learn all this quite fast.i think i'll have to learn some of this from you before i get into all this.
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