Tuesday, March 2, 2010

NWS FLSH! TRNS OUT TXT SPK IS UNORIGNL

Many lament the speedy death of the Queen's English with the advent of text messaging abbreviations. LOL.

As it turns out, teenagers weren't the first of humankind to filter a language down to it's essential ingredients. The Hebrew language of the Old Testament as it was originally written didn't have any vowels - just consonants. They pronounced vowels as they spoke the words, they just didn't waste time writing them down. It might sound a bit strange but it's kind of like in English we could begin Genesis with "N TH BEGNNG".


There's a moral to this story: Moore College should accept instant messaging abbreviations in written exams. I'm just being biblical.

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