June 24, 2008 by Prasanna
What has excessive chatting and texting done to today’s youth? This formal letter explains it all.
Initially, I laughed at this. But now, I feel this is something serious. People should realize that such language is not ok, even if it’s all around us. Tch. Sad.
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I had a hard time figuring this out: Chennai —> 6nai
This looks funny, but, as you rightly said, the laughter cannot hide the fact that the beauty of the language is being spoilt by such things…
Someone wrote *6nai* for Chennai ?! That’s pushing it to the limits
did you reply to this email?
Well, it is very bad that people use such painful language when writing mails. The short forms are okay maybe on chat (I despise it there too), but in a formal letter like this, it is really pathetic. Well, I guess this is the state even in insti.
i hpe u dnt us dis srt of lnguge. ts vry dfclt 2 undrstnd.
(Basically, vowels have to be filled in the blanks, I guess.)
I think the world needs a script to convert SMS lingo into proper English, and that must be incorporated into GMail, popular mail clients and major chat clients
@Akarsh, yeah! But it would be *ver* hard to make though…
It’s almost become a norm in fact to write in such preposterous language. I suppose the situation could improve if we try. For e.g., I hardly use short forms on chat now and it has caught on to at least two others I know of.
@Akarsh
That would only worsen the situation.
@Leela
That’s a solution …
http://meaningfulblabberings.blogspot.com/2006/08/weird-spellings-pain.html
Sam peelingi
(Vadivelu style)