internet lingo
uve nvr tot tat it cud b so irrit8ting
i've always wondered why i feel like i'm talking to a horse pounding on the keyboard with both hooves everytime i chat on MSN. Internet lingo is not short-forms being used effeciently, like say the word lingo here.
acronym-ing is the national past-time for Singaporeans and maybe that's why we've embraced the flawless system faster than it took to get PAP voted into parliament. Truly, given enough time, the country's decision makers could shorten anything before them, from the zeros in your bank account to the school holidays you have. And at the same time not forgetting to shorten the tongue-twister Tampines Expressway into TPE.
Studies have been conducted and it shows a pattern that people of higher interllectual capabilities tended to abstain from using internet lingo like "il b l8", and often even backtrack to correct and grammatical and spelling mistakes they made.
Apart from the scientific element i've added in to back my thoughts, why do we sacrifice our intelligence for mere microseconds it takes to add and "e" in "be". This will effectively degenerate our already vulgar tongue and no amount of speak-good-english campaigns will be able to save us.
So next time you decide to switch to having the grammatical accuracy of a hooved animal, think about the mere microseconds you're wasting over your brain cells committing suicide with the amount of rubbish being authored.
i've always wondered why i feel like i'm talking to a horse pounding on the keyboard with both hooves everytime i chat on MSN. Internet lingo is not short-forms being used effeciently, like say the word lingo here.
acronym-ing is the national past-time for Singaporeans and maybe that's why we've embraced the flawless system faster than it took to get PAP voted into parliament. Truly, given enough time, the country's decision makers could shorten anything before them, from the zeros in your bank account to the school holidays you have. And at the same time not forgetting to shorten the tongue-twister Tampines Expressway into TPE.
Studies have been conducted and it shows a pattern that people of higher interllectual capabilities tended to abstain from using internet lingo like "il b l8", and often even backtrack to correct and grammatical and spelling mistakes they made.
Apart from the scientific element i've added in to back my thoughts, why do we sacrifice our intelligence for mere microseconds it takes to add and "e" in "be". This will effectively degenerate our already vulgar tongue and no amount of speak-good-english campaigns will be able to save us.
So next time you decide to switch to having the grammatical accuracy of a hooved animal, think about the mere microseconds you're wasting over your brain cells committing suicide with the amount of rubbish being authored.
posted by dinesh at 2:13 AM
