I loathe grammatical errors - misspellings, punctuations, misplaced apostrophes - all of them. I correct people involuntarily, it's a spontaneous reflex. No, I don't shorten my words and yes, I abhor sms lingo.
Lately though, I've seen a surge of them on Facebook. It's a friggin' epidemic! A friendly note before you publish your comments/statuses: when the red squiggly thing appears beneath your words - that means you are risking showing that you are a moron to the whole world (except when it underlines your name; that's just annoying).
But they seem to enjoy unleashing their mighty moronic-ness and take away my morning mojo. Like this:
- my frndz gona 2 get me smthng spc!!!!!!!!
You know when it wazz coolz to add a 'z' at the end of your wordz? Or add three trillion exclamation marks? Never.
- posng in all angels hehehe
It's angles! If you're going to not capitalize, misspell and shorten your words, all in the same sentence, maybe you shouldn't be writing it at all.
- You finished you're course?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
No. I finished myself (after stabbing you).
- ....will you hold my hand..........and make it alright..........? My heart................it waits..........only for you....
We are all waiting too - for the sentence to end.
- Still waiting for an train!!! Its making me an miserable gal.
It's making me a miserable gal too, hun.
All this hopelessness inspired me to make an equally hopeless graph.
Psst, if you are in the red zone, I've probably blocked your feeds.
A friend's observation inspired this post. Thanks, Nags!
Lately though, I've seen a surge of them on Facebook. It's a friggin' epidemic! A friendly note before you publish your comments/statuses: when the red squiggly thing appears beneath your words - that means you are risking showing that you are a moron to the whole world (except when it underlines your name; that's just annoying).
But they seem to enjoy unleashing their mighty moronic-ness and take away my morning mojo. Like this:
- my frndz gona 2 get me smthng spc!!!!!!!!
You know when it wazz coolz to add a 'z' at the end of your wordz? Or add three trillion exclamation marks? Never.
- posng in all angels hehehe
It's angles! If you're going to not capitalize, misspell and shorten your words, all in the same sentence, maybe you shouldn't be writing it at all.
- You finished you're course?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
No. I finished myself (after stabbing you).
- ....will you hold my hand..........and make it alright..........? My heart................it waits..........only for you....
We are all waiting too - for the sentence to end.
- Still waiting for an train!!! Its making me an miserable gal.
It's making me a miserable gal too, hun.
All this hopelessness inspired me to make an equally hopeless graph.
Psst, if you are in the red zone, I've probably blocked your feeds.
A friend's observation inspired this post. Thanks, Nags!
2 Comments!:
I am nowhere around being a purist or an English Nazi as you said. But yes, the shortening of the words really are annoying.
Nice read.
Cheers,
Blasphemous Aesthete
Haha! Hamsi, that was just so funny to read. They kill the language, don't they?
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