Inspired by David Duchovny’s dialogues in Californication
Hello blogosphere, I am back, after a week’s absence due to a despicable little thing called tests. This post is on the effect of the internet on language. Internet isn’t killing language (that was just an exaggeration, to get you to read this post and it clearly worked) but it is making it primitive, bending grammar and redefining syntax. People don’t talk anymore, they chat; they don’t write, they blog (I am now a part of the problem). All across these modern methods of communication there is a common pattern, a disregard for grammar. Punctuations, by some are looked at as an unnecessary keystroke. Worse still, others think of it as an unmeaningful tool at their disposal for decoration, to be used wherever and as many times as the heart desires. Seriously, what good does putting more than one question mark or exclamation mark do? How is “????” different from the good old “?” and how is “!!!!!” different from “!” ?
Some people (maybe even you) would pass this off as the evolution of language, but this is not evolution, this is regression. “English” on the internet does not resemble English (you might want to read that again, it is not a typo).
A lot of the shorthands and deliberate misspellings were introduced because they save time but now they have become a fad and are slowly spilling over to more formal usage as well.
Some believe that anything that is comprehensible is acceptable. As this train of thought spreads, text on the internet gets more and more obscure. This is what I found on the internet:
This is comprehensible but I am using the word in a very liberal sense.
If this keeps up, in due time, our language may start to resemble what the cave men used to speak!
That is my opinion, you may consider it, disregard it, lambaste it or ignore it and I would appreciate if you posted some comments in the process.
