by Dale Mayer
Email: bdmayer2002@gmail.com
Site: http://www.dalemayer.com
About: Dale is a prolific full time freelance/ghostwriter who also writes taut psychological suspense with romance and paranormal elements. She has recently branched out into both mystery and urban fantasy books for young adult with the occasional vampire book thrown in just for fun.See Authors Posts (14)
Growing up I was fascinated with the English?language. Mostly because I constantly came?close with my word usage ? but not close enough. Words and phrases like affidavit and statute of?limitations?became (and I swore I was right back then) after David and statues of
limitations. I was never too interested in writing back then, though I loved creating poetry.
In the intervening years that I married and had kids. During that time, I?ve watched the English language adapt to the arrival of the Internet, cell phones ? and the combination of teens on both. I?m still in awe of the bastardization that happened so quickly. A whole new language has developed.
I?m not a big phone person to begin with and could cheerfully not carry a cellphone ? but for the kids sake I had to learn and adapt myself. But it doesn?t come naturally.
I don?t like texting and don?t like trying to interpret what my kids are saying to me. ?At least some of it?s transferable to Twitter!
Another blessing is that some of these shortforms are intuitive, such as k and kk for okay.
And some are in everyday use like LOL for laughing out loud and IMO for in my opinion.
But then there are other ones, such as:
HTH ? FWIW I OH TMI NAGI?IYKWIM. ?SRSLY I?M SMH & LMBO! Oh & DWBH HAND!
Are we really thinking this is a step in the right direction? This type of language is no longer only on cellphones and Twitter ? it?s everywhere! ?Progress or a step back? What do you think?
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