Digital Media Changing Language.

"Smrpg?"

That is a message a friend of mine sent to me the other day. Know what it means? Neither do I. I even Googled it hoping I could figure it out and reply without looking stupid. The only results I recieved said that "Smrpg" stood for "Super Mario RPG," which in context with the conversation we were having made absolutely no sense at all.

So Has digital media changed language?

Yes.

If you go back 100 years ago, 50 years ago, 3 years, or even 5 months ago, and used "Smrpg" in conversation, it would not have made sense to anyone, especially if they are talking about West Virginia football. You know what? It still doesn't make sense. But that is the age we live in. Abbreviations are fine, but we have gotten to the place now where we abbreviate entire sentences into single letters simply because, in our minds, it makes sense, but to anyone else, we are probably going to have to send another text explaining what the last text said. Quite frankly it's getting out of control and is becoming a nuisance.

Here is a link to a site explaining how teachers are now trying to implement a wider variety of methods to teach forms of literacy other than reading or writing, which is good, because no one can read or write anymore.

CYLOTFSITIGTESJFTG2BL8R,

Shanosha.

(Catch you later on the flip side. I think I'm going to eat some junk food then go to bed. Later.)

See how confusing that is??