a very happy
new year! I know I’m late in wishing you all but cut me some slack because it
was my birthday and I was a little busy celebrating it. And I am really glad
that I wasn’t born in the era of my grandmother because then this would have
been the birthday rhyme for me; “the child that is born on the Sabbath day is
bonny and blithe, and good and gay.” Umm… a little awkward right? Thank god I was
born in the 21st century.
I was just wondering what changes this year is
going to bring about in the English language since it was already hard enough
for me with all the abbreviated texts floating about. Needless to say, me being
technically retarded had a very hard time comprehending half of those messages.
But I finally caught on with the ‘rly shrt wrds’ messages and was starting to
feel a little proud of myself when suddenly, I realized that we are entering into
a new year with probably even more terrifying torturous things being done to
slaughter the English language. But I won’t blame our generation for it. It has
been done ever since the Shakespearean era. And the grammarians are trying to
lure us back into using the original words. But why change back to the original
words? Why bother with stodgy grammar when the new words are cool and free
right?
These days,
due to all the constant changes in grammar and words, I often don’t know whether
to use who or whom, or write shall or will. I guess I don’t care anymore. Just say
the words with confidence and give the ‘dude, you’re so old-fashioned’ look to
anyone who tries to play a critic. even Shakespeare did not know when he wrote
the line “ whan that Aprill with his shoures soote…” that it would because of
the modern corruption become “ when april comes with the showers sweet… “
But we cool dudes are also going to be using
outdated words in the coming years. That’s the magic of this language and soon
even the nursery rhymes we are so fond of will need footnotes to be understood
by the new generation kids. You think you can change the trend? LOL!
Feminist :)
