The Decay of our Language

An excerpt from a Chicago Maroon article:

Language is precious, and being able to express oneself through writing, even in something as apparently trivial as an e-mail, is vital. AOL-speak strips all the beauty and nuance out of written language, converting it to a means rather than its own end, shifting the emphasis from quality of self-expression and communication to sheer speed, efficiency, and volume of dispatches. Personal communication used to mean something; people took time in the composition of correspondence and invested something of themselves in it. Now, however, cookie-cutter abbreviations have overrun the realm of language, leaving it a bleak, monosyllabic wasteland.

Yeah. I just loved that paragraph. So I thought I’d share it with you all. Click here for the rest of the article.

By the way, ‘hax0r’ is 2 syllables. LOL!!11 pwnt!

Tagged: Language, Internet speak