Monday, January 21, 2008

2 kilos pls

It was inevitable.

"Something happened, I can't believe it."

"Isn't there a way out? We got into it... there has to be!"

"No, we're stuck. It's done and we're falling all the way."

The fall of mankind began at the most unfortunate time: When technology was flourishing and convenience was almost in everything. Every simple chore could be made easier and people became lazier. The stress was supposed to be reduced. Life was easier, it should have been a step towards some great peak of existence.

But the lazy and gluttonous nature of people took over. Man descended into a hell-pit of shortcuts, poor quality and even poorer excuses.

Language was the first casualty and it went unnoticed until it was too late. By the time anyone knew what was happening, the damage had already been done.

Automation was too ingrained. The fall was inevitable...

"
lyk omg did u here?"

"na wot hppnd?"

"we fell lol woz on tha newz"

"dats no gud lol but o wel"

It was just a trend. When "phones" first introduced text chat the room for a single message was limited and letters had to be cut. It was difficult to read at best. This new breed of language began to infect everything typed. Soon, web-pages and chat rooms were full of these abominations. Even the phone messages, now unlimited by space, remain the same incoherent mutation of English.

The dreaded and all-perverted "asl" came to its pinnacle soon after. Hello was no longer a greeting, it was simply "asl" not even as a question, but rather a statement. It was if you were registering yourself to another person by assuring them you were of a certain sex, location and age. It was prone to falsehood. Forty year olds were sweet 16 and males were females. Locations were unlimited, from Abu Dhabi to next door.

Letters replaced whole words. Numbers replaced letters until in a tragic display of our demise, a horrid mutation of language was recognized by dictionaries as Word of the Year. The world ignored the fact it wasn't actually a word. "w00t" as proclaimed among online gamers since the dawn of "1337" speak also known as a waste of time typing and reading.

"w00t" that is composed of two numbers that have no sound associated with them. They are "zero" and not a viable replacement for "o." You can't say "w00t" like it was "woot."
Dublewezerozeroty.

May some omnipotent thing save us all.

- G ΞΆ.

How do you change the world?
One thing at a time
One person at a time
And with patience incomprehensible to man

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