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Am I alone in thinking our verbal and written communication standards are declining as dramatically as our polar icecaps are melting?
Relax. I'm not proposing any causal link between the two.
But I am bothered about the way IM or SMS text-speak seems to be creeping into the written language insidiously and pervasively.
I know I'm terribly old-school about such things and that probably started with my last-century English grammar school education. However, I have always felt the one thing that unites disparate nationalities and which is so well symbolised through forums like the KHE is an ability to use a common language according to a near-common rule-set in a way that is easily understood by most if not all readers.
With the emergence of txt spk u r strtng 2 c wrds usd ina wy dt bcums dfklt to undrstnd. WT*s with that?
Txt spk looks to me like a lazy person's way of communicating - but it puts an enormous workload back on the reader who has to wrestle with guessing the missing letters and attempting to decrypt what the writer may be trying to communicate.
I am reminded of the old joke about simplifying the English Language within the EEC where over a period of several years English is surreptitiously morphed into German. Funny and cool - I can speak German.
The problem is, txt spk seems to be morphing us into Klingon - or maybe it's Bork. Neither of which are in my repertoire.
The question is - do we stand by and passively accept txt spk here on this forum as an inevitable evolution of our language?
Or, should we be actively encouraging participants here and elsewhere to adopt a traditional and "proper" written communication style that will stand them in good stead in the global marketing industry?
I'll just slip into my flak jacket, and hand this thorny issue over to my colleagues at the KHE...
ChrisB