When I was in high school, we had a teacher – Mrs. Morris. For extra credit, we could bring in photos or cut outs of advertisements or things we saw in public that purposely spelled things incorrectly. Like “Krazy Glue,” and other similar items. I’m pretty sure, in today’s world, I could have passed that class on extra credit alone.
I have actual fear that in not-that-many-years-from-now we will all speaking in this weird shorthand that we’ve created. Maybe we’ll be speaking in 140 characters at a time that will force us to drop some words entirely to the point where we have to sound out the sentence so that we may actually understand it (yes, I have to do this with lots of the text message “shorthand”). Honestly? Most of the shorthand isn’t even that much shorter. Is it that hard to spell out Y-O-U… so hard that we have to simply put U? Really? I can’t bring myself to do it.
How did we get here? More importantly, how can we get back?
This epidemic goes far beyond my continuous grammar faux pas of starting sentences with And and But. This is serious, people. It’s a matter of saving lives!
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