Call me crazy, but as technology has gifted us with gadgets that makes life easier and convenient, it is slowly robbing us of our sanity and common sense. Sanity may very well be a strong word but its just my way of stressing the fact that I hate the way people converse in the mobile phone universe, at least here in the Philippines.
Maybe we're evolving backwards and we want to go back to those times that people communicate by sign language or language is slowly being replaced by the digital language.
"Wer na u? d2 na me." Why interchange ako with me? Why? Why?
"San q keu mit?" q for ko? lazy...
And to make it worse, the innate desire to belong gets the better of the manliest of men and succumb to the lure of stupidity. They fail to realize how gay it would sound to use Va instead of Ba.
"Nakufo, valik work na naman sa Monday..."
Yes its petty, but I guess this roots from the fear that when my son gets old, spelling and grammar will be a thing of the past.
2 comments:
Don't worry. As long as there are spelling bees and taking to account the rise if qwerty phones. Spelling won't be obsolete. Bad spelling on the other hand is already acceptable so you can't do anything about it.
There's this marvelous devise built into most mobile phones (yes, even your China iPhone). It's called the spelling predictor. It makes life much easier, and it can make one look less like he shouldn't have graduated from Grade School.
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