September 18, 2007
I have a few things to write about, but I'll probably not write about them all out of fatigue. Nevertheless, I feel the need to write about a trend in the English language that I despise.
We apparently need to reduce the spoken and written language to the bare minimum requirement. This has been going on for years, but my cup finally spilled over and I am sick of it. How freaking lazy are we? Back when Kentucky Fried Chicken decided to call itself KFC, I shook my head. Unfortunately, they were right for the general population. I had to hear an add a couple of times before I realized that the bank Washington Mutual decided their name was too long. Now they are called WaMu. What a bunch of HC (horse crap - trying to match the trend).
We used to be a species that prided ourselves on having the ability to express ourselves elegantly. We could elegantly express ourselves in literature and art in ways that the rest of the animal kingdom could not compare. No longer is that the case. The internet industry (yes, I realize that I am part of that) has degenerated us into a world of the least amount of energy expended. Simple things like "that cracked me up so bad I laughed out loud" have been reduced to three letters: LOL- Laugh out Loud. No one can express themselves in words of their own. I am very disgusted with the whole thing. We hopefully still treat Shakespeare with reverence who would have said something more eloquent:
sdksdoifydhdidhn
Alright, I am too tired and cranky to put the time into iambic pentameter. Maybe that is the whole thing. We are too tired and lazy. Notice that Shakespeare only wrote in traditional rhyme when the more baser representatives of society were speaking. Maybe that is me.
Another note: I had a good talk tonight with a friend from work. I'll keep this brief, but it cracks me up. This is not mine, but the originator would not be pleased if I used his/her name publicly. He commented briefly about people being Single Unhappy Nerds. I actually didn't get it at first. After he commented on the acronym I busted out laughing. It may not be everybody at Sun, but it is certainly a lot of us.
I think I need to laugh about that a bit longer...
Eventually we will all talk in clicks like some of the African tribal languages. Maybe it will all be just binary speak...
click, click, hmmm, click....
We apparently need to reduce the spoken and written language to the bare minimum requirement. This has been going on for years, but my cup finally spilled over and I am sick of it. How freaking lazy are we? Back when Kentucky Fried Chicken decided to call itself KFC, I shook my head. Unfortunately, they were right for the general population. I had to hear an add a couple of times before I realized that the bank Washington Mutual decided their name was too long. Now they are called WaMu. What a bunch of HC (horse crap - trying to match the trend).
We used to be a species that prided ourselves on having the ability to express ourselves elegantly. We could elegantly express ourselves in literature and art in ways that the rest of the animal kingdom could not compare. No longer is that the case. The internet industry (yes, I realize that I am part of that) has degenerated us into a world of the least amount of energy expended. Simple things like "that cracked me up so bad I laughed out loud" have been reduced to three letters: LOL- Laugh out Loud. No one can express themselves in words of their own. I am very disgusted with the whole thing. We hopefully still treat Shakespeare with reverence who would have said something more eloquent:
sdksdoifydhdidhn
Alright, I am too tired and cranky to put the time into iambic pentameter. Maybe that is the whole thing. We are too tired and lazy. Notice that Shakespeare only wrote in traditional rhyme when the more baser representatives of society were speaking. Maybe that is me.
Another note: I had a good talk tonight with a friend from work. I'll keep this brief, but it cracks me up. This is not mine, but the originator would not be pleased if I used his/her name publicly. He commented briefly about people being Single Unhappy Nerds. I actually didn't get it at first. After he commented on the acronym I busted out laughing. It may not be everybody at Sun, but it is certainly a lot of us.
I think I need to laugh about that a bit longer...
Eventually we will all talk in clicks like some of the African tribal languages. Maybe it will all be just binary speak...
click, click, hmmm, click....