Death of the English Language

how annoying is it that ppl talk like this without any want for periods or the end of the thought and no capitalization and subject changes about puppies and kittens and isnt it nice today i thought so lol so what are u doing now i am bored and want u to come over and chill because i have nothing to do so yeah call me

Okay, granted, I am bad at inhabiting this form because I HATE IT. With a strong, fiery passion. Granted, I am an English major, and things like this are going to naturally bother me. Not capitalizing things, not putting in periods in sentences, chatspeak (ok, I've put in an occasion brb or lol in my conversations, but beyond that it's rediculous), and other forms of murder on the English language invade IM conversations and e-mails and, I'm sure, probably some of the blogs here on Progressive U.

I can excuse lack of capitalization I suppose. I mean, it is so incredibly hard to push two buttons at once that it can be difficult for many.

Lack of periods, exclaimation points, questions marks, and sometimes commas are just beyond annoying though. I want to know when you are asking me a question. I want to know when you are excited about something. I want to know when you're moving onto another though. The occasional grammer mark can fill me in to these things; after all, we're not talking face to face. If you can vocally say everything you just typed with no breath or pause or voice variation, and this sounds like something that could be coherant to another person...then I guess go ahead and typed that way.

Ah, chatspeak. I kind of want to shoot the first person who decided the very short words "you" and "are" really needed to be shortened to one letter. Those other two letters just waste too much energy! And then there are those little acronyms. There is an acronym for everything, because people's lives are just too busy to type and form full words. Pretty soon, these acronyms will replace important confessions such as siswys = sorry I'm sleeping with your sister. Or iral = I'm really a lesbian.

Already, humans of today don't have near the vocabulary they have possessed in several of the past centuries. There doesn't seem to be a need to know a lot of words, when you can say it simply and short on the computer, or even in person.

Oh, and then there's the lovely insertion of cusswords. Everywhere. I mean, the most versatile word in the dictionary now is f*ck, which can be used in almost any part of speech. Cusswords were originally mostly used in angry or perverse or deragatory situations, but now they are found everywhere in normal, easy conversation. I think normal, non-deragatory terms work just fine to explain something, and no one has to get offended.

I mourn this slow death of English. It is a step back in our human evolution. Yet, it is just another sign that our society is gradually descending into complete sloth.