You Twit Face !!!

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Technology might be shrinking the world, but the social networking websites and half a dozen chat clients seem to be shrinking our vocabularies as well. Infact not following grammar rules is quite the couture for today's teenagers.

People don't write anymore. They chat, they blog, they send smileys and ping but they don't write anymore. Punctuation and grammar have no place in today's world and despite increase in the modes of communication there is a general decline in quality thereof.

Moreover, fewer people read for pleasure these days. Gone are the days when college-educated english speaker had a working vocabulary of more than 100,000 words. Today if they have a vocabulary of a couple of thousand then its an achievement. Would you believe that there are 540,000 words in English Language and we use a nil, nothing, negligible fraction of it.

Call me traditional, but am not impressed with broken English. I am amazed how little one can convey and yet keep a conversation going for a sustained period of time. Come to think of it "What Else Syndrome" on chat clients is actually kind of boring. I mean how boring is our life that the answer to "What Else" always comes back as "Nothing Much".

That said though, I guess we need to accept the fact that communication changes over years.Our generation has witnessed the change. The change from typewriters to computers and from the paper age to today's e-age.

Also, some of these new net-lingos are pretty cool ... 2000 and counting. BRB, TTYL, JK, LOL and LMAO being a few common ones. Question that now arises is whether the vocabulary is shrinking or just changing? I might prefer good old King's English but does that give me the right to question the change?

Well maybe not... So until the next blog ... TTYL & TC