The ten years of English grammar in school and the cute teachers ( never ever understood why all the English teachers were chic lasses) inculcated in me the basic love for the language. But with the 'Facebook' era and the SMS lingo, times have changed. Grammar and spellings have gone down the recycle bin while 'awsum kwick use of lang' rules.
Just the other day, I was playing Scrabble with my kid brother, and to my utter amazement, he cracks a jackpot (and the widest smile displaying the perfect result of the Closeup commercial) by scoring a triple word point on the word lol. No amount of arguments or persuasion could lead him to change his mind that lol is actually a word. He flashed his cellphone to display a text from his topper friend who had used that 'awsum' (as he put it) winning word in his message.
There was this other instance when my friend came up to me asking if I could facebook his pictures and also tag and poke him. Imagine if my mother hears this conversation!! Poke??!! She'd seriously think her daughter is gone out of hand. How ironic that the one website that can cause us to ignore our valued books is called FACEBOOK. There was a time when tweet referred to the sound of a bird. Oh!! How times change!
I guess Oxford and Harvard are closely watching, for they may be in business soon for printing new dictionaries. Maybe, Mr. Kapil Sibbal is closely watching, since it could give him the credit of pioneering new English textbooks in the curriculum.
Just the other day, I was playing Scrabble with my kid brother, and to my utter amazement, he cracks a jackpot (and the widest smile displaying the perfect result of the Closeup commercial) by scoring a triple word point on the word lol. No amount of arguments or persuasion could lead him to change his mind that lol is actually a word. He flashed his cellphone to display a text from his topper friend who had used that 'awsum' (as he put it) winning word in his message.
There was this other instance when my friend came up to me asking if I could facebook his pictures and also tag and poke him. Imagine if my mother hears this conversation!! Poke??!! She'd seriously think her daughter is gone out of hand. How ironic that the one website that can cause us to ignore our valued books is called FACEBOOK. There was a time when tweet referred to the sound of a bird. Oh!! How times change!
I guess Oxford and Harvard are closely watching, for they may be in business soon for printing new dictionaries. Maybe, Mr. Kapil Sibbal is closely watching, since it could give him the credit of pioneering new English textbooks in the curriculum.
