SHAKESPEARian MURDER

"HEY DUDE... wass upp" "ss up?" ... "itzz 2 boring." You can find these words trending in social networks and short message service (SMS). So what language are these? People say its english.But as a sincere admirer of english, i am not able to digest these. I think some readers may not be aware of this murder of the language rather those people who are aware of this might not feel guilty too. A debut social network user might feel this language a bewildering one. But its not so. People  use words like "ROTFL" "LMAO" "TFS", "IMO" "BRB" etc. Initially we find like these phrases or standard abbreviations for any posts. But the fact is they aren't. 'ROTFL' means Rolling on the floor laughing, 'LMAO' means Laughing My Ass off, 'IMO' means In my Opinion , 'BRB' means Be Right Back and 'TFS' means Thanks for sharing.

                                        But why people just stick on to this? The reason is simple. They think they are trending or they think that those short forms are cool.Is it really cool to Knock off words , especially vowels "a,e,i,o,u"? In my lower classes they taught me that vowels are almost inseperable from words.Secondly what is cool in replacing 'S' by 'Z' and "the" by "d"? And people find it cool in intermingling the cut short words with number system.Another thing is people just kick the silent letters in any words. For someone who is new to Social networks might find difficult to understand wat "OSUM" really mean. After certain research, people can arrive at the answer that "osum" actually means "awesome". 

 So i always imagined what shakespeare might feel if he joins this Facebook or orkut? will he committ suicide? Probably yes might be my answer. So let us analyse why people get into such actions. are they lazy? NO. Because people are replacing words "man" by "mahn", "my" by "mah" and "hot" by "hawt".They replace some 3 letter or 2 letter words by 5 letter or 4 letter words respectively.The reason is so obvious that People use such words because they think that they are cool and they are trending by multilating words. But keep in mind one thing, English is a beautiful and a meaningful language with all its nuances, pronunciation, silent letters, homonyms and intricacies in meaning. So i believe it is a crime to ruin such a wonderful language for which no single is victed or punished.I will be happy if at least a single soul reading this just feels like "Yes! i feel guilty. Hereafter i will refrain from doing so." and i still believe wat i said.

Regards

Arun