Mind your language

“‘Sup bro?” “Wad up?” “ROFL” “LMAO” “LOL” and the most disgustingly “LOLS” and “LOLZZZ” ….

Some of you might be asking yourself,”What the hell....” and some who know me might be wondering: “That’s right. Param has officially lost it”.

So to put you out of your wondering let me tell you that these are the very words and phrases that spell the doom of the English as our grandparents had known it

Their usage is seen in the population of the age group of 13-25.(I sure do have something against them. And to think that I also belong to that set!) The people belonging to this demographic group usually feel the need to use such language in order to establish their “coolness” since they have nothing else cooler to do. Without this, they are just another high school kid or an average college student. This usage is found to be employed excessively by those who have access to American movies and TV shows from which they pick up these phrases and then the thing spreads like HIV. One person tells another and in no time everybody seems to be using those words or phrases. Facebook and Orkut have their share in this too. They are basically the reason why this has gone worse from bad. People can visit complete strangers’ profiles and read them (which is a disgusting thing in its own). Now even those who don’t know each other can imitate one another and hence the outbreak of these words spreads even more rapidly.

This usage includes very out of place acronyms and abbreviations as well as mutated forms of original English words. I feel nauseated when I read such words. It is considered the “in thing” to corrupt the simplest words like “my” into “ma” or “mah” (I almost puked when I first saw this one.) And they always seem to cut away a few vowels and sometimes even a few consonants from the words. I guess they are no longer sure of the correct spellings of those words.

I see no reason why a language which has taken thousands of years of care of linguists to develop should be treated by these people as if she were a prostitute, as if they could screw her anyhow they wanted and anytime they wanted. The languages are the testaments of men’s glory. People have no right to debase something so sacred and so old.

“…No grammar, no punctuations. It is just a bunch of stupid people pseudo-communicating with the bunch of other stupid people in a protolanguage that resembles more to what cavemen used to speak than the King’s English.”

-Hank Moody. (Californication)

Trust me. It does not look cool if you aren’t comfortable with doing it(just like topless posing). And those who do it without adequate knowledge of the language wind up looking like colossal losers.

“I’d choose to look simple if the alternative was to look stupid.”