"From Kitchen to Classroom" - A Teacher's Blog

4) MURDERING WITH POLLUTION

Today I am writing about some kind of frustration I have. It keeps growing each day and each time when I see people miss typing a lot.  I really mean those people who uses the word “you” only writing “U” and "C" for see.  I don’t know if years by years people are getting a little “lazy” to writing in lines that we can read without having headaches for understanding what they are mean, or I am getting too old for this. There are many of us who are allowing it by their own choice, however. Personally, there is no way it's going to happen to me. 

Is this the death of the English language?...or...Is it the metamorphosis and evolution of an ever changing dialect?  Linguistics rarely ever stay the same over time. By time, I am referencing a few hundred years or so. Think back to the previous periods of 1700's, 1800's and even the 1900's, there is a noticeable difference in the style English and how it is used. I am fairly confident that an English grammar teacher from the 1700's would view our use English today as utterly butchered. 

Internet slang’s and language are really killing the language. Some “u c waat I mean? ” and all those creepy lines get me sick, I keep thinking if people who are behind their computers are just kids learning how to write and type… We can see this a lot in chats, even blogs, and I still keep thinking, if someday they get a job interview, will they write in their curriculum the same vulgar Internet language as well, and see if they will be called to start working soon as they think they will….

English is not my primary language but well, I would like to write and pass the image that I am trying to be serious. The way members on social site talk or write when they are responding to comments or the replies of others and even the way they word their questions and blogs make me think sometimes that we are communicating with animals or aliens and one of extremely low intelligence. Most of them don't know how to spell the simplest words, how to compose a sentence correctly, or anything about correct grammar or punctuation.... When you type correctly, the first impression you pass to others is the seriousness about what you are doing at something.

What hurts more is when you are trying to talk with someone in serious issues they start typing like that, I get lost on their purposes and meanings, and somehow, I think they aren’t really getting serious on what I am talking. When I see some of the things that people post on the internet, particularly young people, I get extremely annoyed. Sometimes they just do things like miss out the vowels, which is really lazy in my opinion. Other times, you wonder what did they actually learn in whatever school that they went to, because they don't seem to be able to even string a sentence together without making a lot of spelling errors in the process. The majority of people and students in school cannot spell simple words anymore. They cannot formulate simple sentences, and forget about them to construct a decent paragraph. In fact, many students in colleges don't know how to write because they are constantly texting and instant messaging each other, and it shows on their answer papers, record books, projects and even in their bio-data. 

This is a huge outcome of the majority of students bunking English classes or not too serious about it. Situation is pathetic specially with Science Students, who need the language the most and are the "Prime-ignorants". I think that they should really know the English Language first, and I mean "truly knowing" the English Language before they learn to text.

Most teenagers say it’s “more fast and easy" to type something that they want”,  but hell, if you want to type, at least do it clearly so that next person can read it “more fast and easy". I am not obligated to see your assassination of my language. I want to read it clear, straight without vulgar Internet slang. Less “U” words I see, better and more serious I will think about your approach towards me or the issue. I wish to see MY students and MY people typing correctly, no matter place or occasion it is… Think about when you get a job… if you work on publicity or marketing enterprises and talk or write this way like you do, … Take time to learn and and type it good, if you want to rush and want to use less words to say than what you feel… It’s better you to just keep shut for the moment and save the typing for a later time…

I recommend my students and friends to either write in good English or write in good Hindi or Marathi. A thousand learning ehtusiastic eyes are watching you. I have decided not to not reply to any of the sentences which are using English words for Hindi or Marathi or vice-versa. Also I will not entertain using short forms, style forms, and all that nonsensical literature of the SMS that KILLS the essence literature and abuses Mother Saraswati. Literature in any language is highly sanctum and we as its users MUST respect it. 

"LEARNING" to drive away the illiteracy is what seperates humans from other life forms and "ILLITERACY" of a novel kind is what these kids are learning. This basically fails everything and everybody's efforts. They fail themselves, their lives, their parents and their teachers. The more they do it, the more rapid is the journey back to the Jungle. 

Well, sorry for all this bad mood, but I needed to say this, somehow, as this Internet slang is highly polluting and thus murderous................…