Why have so many people given up on using full words in their communication? Does it actually save any time in the overall scheme of things? The deterioration of language has starting snowballing, and it’s picking up more and more speed. Everybody should be using full words. It’s as simple as that. With the internet and phones taking over, it seems necessary for people to use full words, but they refuse. The word ‘light,’ for example. For everyone who spells it during an essay, they spell it correctly. But, in the real world, anywhere one would see the word, they spell it ‘lite’. Shortening words by one letter and completely changing the letters within the word does not accomplish anything. There are reasons foreigners think that english is the most confusing language. Often times, it is a confusing language, but there is no doubt that people misspelling words on purpose does not help their confusion.

In the new age of communicating primarily with our thumbs, concerned people are talking about how so many are losing social skills. Well that’s all fine and good as a concern, they should be worried about how they don’t know how to make full words. Contrary to the belief of many teenagers, “lol,” is not actually a word. So, why put it after every text you send to someone, especially when nothing funny was said? It’s not accomplishing anything. Talking to people and not using full words or sentences is not something to be proud of, especially when talking to people who know how to talk. Unless one is making fun of those who do that, the people you talk to are going to judge you pretty harshly, before even knowing you. Is it worth saving half of a second?

One more that’s up there as something that’s not helping the english language is the age old tradition of using vowels is gone! Shortening words by one letter just to save the trip all the way over to the ‘a’ on the keyboard. It saves a fraction of a second, if even that. Yet, across the board, most people just completely cut out vowels, and even worse, people completely understand them. Asking someone “r u bsy?” is not something that should be understood by everybody. But, everyone can translate that into, “Are you busy?” It hardly saved any time, and it looks illiterate to those who are reading it. I’ll ask you again, why do people do things like this? it doesn’t save enough time to end up being a consequential amount, and it seems that no one appreciates reading a text without full words. It seems to be an unanswered phenomenon.