Rejoice in texting acronyms! (LOL—once I mashed the keyboard with my fist and sent the letter blob to a colleague who uses lots of texting acronyms—took him half an hour of searching to realize I’d just sent him random letters.)
Gotta love tweets (RT@someoneyouknow), throw in the pronouns “i” and “u,” add a few “z” to wordz, publish “thru” defiantly in ur blog, and isn’t it gr8 2 use #s, 2?
Purist writer colleagues shudder. They point to the degradation of the language and bemoan the fate of the English language: everyone is writing sloppily and getting away with it!
I have a journalist friend who tells me her life is full of different styles now--she writes in one register for work, but texts her kids in another "speak" in the evening and tweets in another verse later. They all have their own purposes and functions.
Languages do change and evolve...(think of the pronunciation of "r" in NYC), but I don't think we have to fear it. Words come and go. Standards remain more rigid for academic, literary, and business writing. What we now have is more registers to use and more flexibility in how we use these new registers. It's creative and a fun new word world out there--go out & njoy ur new freedom 2 break rulez.
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