Monday, February 13, 2006

Where the Dickens did it all go so horridly wrong?!

The English language is today dying a slow and excrutiatingly painful death. One would need only to look at blogs for example, to get a feeler for the kind of distasteful vocabulary people would allow into their blog-casting language.
Almost every other entry on blogosphere carries with it a burden of comments teeming with profanities and every darn expletive under the sun ever to be expleted. Mostly, the forte of emotionally immature people; not wont to logical reasoning and whose very definition of life is a zero sum game, it brings into sharp relief their desperation in making a stab at muffling a contrary point of view.

Ahem! It's going to be one sad day when almost, as if by second nature, people start answering their phones with a f*** morning, wtf do you f***** expect me to do for you?(sorry about that!). Quite possibly,an exaggeration yes, but if a sample reading of blogs world-wide is some indication of the shape of things to come; communicating in English is going to become so much more technicolour that it will leave your face drained of any colour it has ever known. Non-native speakers might as well drop the whole idea of learning English, altogether. You will do just fine gesticulating with fingers, as it were; or using a litany of mostly provocative emoticons that will never cease being in short supply in order to keep that communication, or rather, the lack of it going.

Is it within our grasp then, to actually do something about this at the grass roots, and to somehow keep the 'Profanity Fairy' at a safe remove from our centres of learning, blogs and the office space?
Also do you think it a fair deal to expect others; raised as they are on a diet comprising mostly, the 'f' and the 'c' words, B-rated Hollywood flicks, and macFries to go on the side to conform to our old school standards of what should, and shouldn't be allowed in blog(-al)ese, or is that being too fuckin’ harsh on them?!

2 Comments:

Blogger Men Who Do Cleavages said...

Giving credit where it's due, I first posted this entry on a "nobody's baby of a blog"ie. anonymous.kuwaitblogs.com.

anonymous.kuwaitblogs.com is a potpourri of mostly topical features concerning Q8.
All are welcome to drop by.

7:14 pm  
Blogger Mellowdrama said...

I agree...and it is not just about profanity, it is also about the slaughter of the language and SMS literature. And hey, why BLOGS? Hang out on any college campus and you will get a earful..um for that matter hang out at any ad agency. I am on my own now, and strangely enough my vocab has undergone a radical change - no more f words..lol, tis the company we keep.

Hmm..My ex-editor has a neat blog on the subject, chk it out www.youthcurry.blogspot.com -

4:47 pm  

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