Disclaimer: this information can be conceived by someone who will appreciate English as opposed to the language by the same name that doesn’t resemble it.

This is an outburst of any normal individual who would stand by what he was taught and what he can understand. Let’s go back to the golden old school days; would we dare write a sentence like this, “C u 2mro ma frnd, gud nite” and, still walk without embarrassment? It would definitely surprise everyone that the gibberish within quotes is the language of the day. I don’t know if the world is heading to Apocalypse, as Hollywood strongly suggests but, English definitely has got a glimpse of it. I know that this topic can leave a lot of room for people squealing in self-defense or, the others confidently supporting the contrary with their tails between their legs. We get to see more alarming variations so hell bent on popularizing and masking their insufficiency only to ruin the rest – wouldn’t it be more ironic if I choose to ‘rap’ about this than ranting? Everyone can very well understand when the barriers for learning a new language owe to your native language rather than your “valued” negligence. For that matter, I’m not even going to make a mention about spoken English – that’s being meticulously and carefully crucified for years now. Let me introduce you to the people who would be so willingly causing the downfall of a language that has originated from a land of great history – I’ll chose to refer them as the ‘Leeches’ through the rest of the content. The ‘leeches’ in our context, are the distinguished people who take pride in slaughtering the linguistic rules in the name of style, flaunting it to the generations to come and eventually bring about the total collapse of the language. Fortunately, the leeches are only on the rise and there is still hope to contain the contamination. But, let’s not forget that even the ever-expanding universe of ours started from a tiny little speck; so, beware of the leeches!

The advent of e-mail and mobile phones, have not only shrunk the world and brought it closer but it has had a similar effect on English – words and sentences have shrunk to a near incomprehensible combination of alphabets, numbers and a furiously exceeding number of punctuation marks in the wrong places. How many times have you seen “!!!!!!” or “???????”? Using more than one exclamation DOES NOT emphasize the reader to be overly surprised - it never has and never will! Again, this is under the assumption that the reader is not a leech too. Well, we can’t read or write ‘Leechese’ when we aren’t one of them but, they do it with absolute ease. I want to see how I look like from a leech’s eyes – by far, they have seen me as a misled critic who cannot appreciate the virtues of simple people and has fun at their expense. If that is the effect satire can have, well, I embrace their view with utmost sincerity and will endure. Coming to talk about the contribution to this, the west takes a lion’s share. I hail from southern part of India, which has a rich heritage, and now rotting with the rise of “open” culture. You don’t have to dig deep to find out what it is all about – the literal translation is good enough. Culture doesn’t have much to do with following a language right but, I’m amazed at the level of confidence with which people write incorrect English; I cannot quite recollect since when it became widely acceptable. I was fortunate enough to have known a handful who could share the view from my head – I would’ve most definitely thanked ‘God’ here if I weren’t an atheist. If I start quoting examples of how bad English could get, that can even be mistaken for a whole new language; which, it has already started to become. The company which I used to work for had an English forum where people can do a bit of writing and, it started off great like every other shiny MIG does, before it crash lands. It was like seeing a man growing back into a monkey; do I hate monkeys? I love the world.

Ever wondered what an ellipsis is, in the context of English language? It is the three dots after a sentence which is meant to introduce a pause or to have some implied meaning that was omitted. But, I see people using a hundred dots between every incomplete fragment of their terrible writing. To top it up with some cream, they use exclamations too – expressive shit! My point here is, if you choose to write, why not even try to be grammatically correct. English is now stretched between the urgency of communication and the ignorance to learning and has transformed into a code which is perfectly encoded and deciphered by the Leeches. Now, who really cares about grammar or being grammatically correct? I remember the Joker’s words – ‘Does it depress you to know how lonely you really are?’ I really couldn’t eat the fact that people who can’t tell the difference of a noun from a verb write pages of blogs and are celebrated as writers. Their ‘work’ has ‘inspired’ people to write similar crap and we see it everywhere – looking for an example? Try fishing in your fish bowl. Every time when I’ve tried to be critical about something, people get so offended calling it as an act of discouraging the ‘writer’. There’s a religious following of American English and that is never the language that would be taught to someone in school. People pick them up mostly from movies and start using their own versions of the already corrupt language. If everything that do not conform to Standard English can be made acceptable by calling it ‘casual’ or ‘colloquial’, that is definitely a problem with our attitude towards it. I’m only making a call to everyone to take a wee bit of care when writing something even meant just for your eyes.