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whats with the reduction???


I recently received an email.
Excerpts:
"hi...
new yr. wuz gr8....
10 days sem hols in house....
really gr8....
i went 2 XXX 4 a wknd....only 2 buy XXXXX... (XXX added for identity issues)
stayed @ frnds house....
thats it 4 now.."

This email had me staring at it for a while.

Points to be noted:
was is no more style- use wuz!
you no longer have friends - you have either frnds or frenz! And huh, talk to da frenz, ok?
If your email/letter has only alphas, you are from the 90's. In case you didn't notice alpha-numeric is in town!

Some additional vocabulary:
enuf!
cm! - short for come (**&%&^$)
jz - just(*^%*$)
tym - so difficult to type 'time', is it?
And yeah! the very famous 10x. 10 x? what is 10 x?
Its not 10 x hon. Put it together: 10x is thanks, see!
Oh God!
And yeah, add a similar explanation for 10q too! (sigh)

Looks like English has taken a wild turn these days. I don't know who the culprit is.
Is it messenger? Maybe a little!
I think I would attribute this to the SMS culture in India. (Oh! I didn't mention this is happening in India; apparently, people in US have more time, or so it seems). I heard a lot about the SMS revolution in India. Growing like wildfire!!!
These college-goers have their own slang & it continues till they get to work. Fine, hon. Lower a notch, would ya?
The slang is here to stay, it seems. Its like "the thing" in fashion now!
Give me a break. (heavy sigh)

Comments

  1. AnonymousMarch 13, 2007 at 3:44 PM

    Hey Meera, messenger may not be the only culprit, you can also relate this to laziness and style

    -Jayashree

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  2. MEMarch 14, 2007 at 4:36 PM

    yeah, right! we are talking about 20 yr olds, not 60 :-)

    ReplyDelete

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