By Jeanette Kwakye
Arrrrrgh.
It is now time to leave sunny Florida and head back to London, I’m not particularly happy about this because I was getting into the groove of training in the heat. Nonetheless, as I write to you now, I am actually multi tasking at the highest possible level. (Of course this is only achievable by women).
I am, blogging, trying in vain to check-in on my flight online, finish packing and shooting off some emails.
However one thing that gets me sometimes is we rush too much. When in fact we are to blame for leaving things until the last possible minute and then blame the lack of time, when in all honesty we have had more than enough time.
Being in such a hot climate for the best part of 4 weeks has also made me see how slow people can actually move, just like in the Caribbean and in Africa. Its too hot to rush out there!
Although one thing that seems to be quite international at the moment, is the way that Internet age has shortened the way we write…
Now, as I have explained already, everything does seem to be a rush job, but the most annoying thing that I find is becoming to prevalent is the over use of ‘short-hand’ or ‘Text talk’
The kids seem to do it the most and I am going to start telling my 12 year old sister to use appropriate spelling when talking on her messenger applications.
For example… Dnt u jst h8 it wen ppl rite lk this?
That is not hard to understand, but you didn’t go through years of an education system for that to be the norm.
Ok, maybe I am being harsh on the kids and it is deemed as cool to write that way. However it is not cool for anyone of an adult age to be doing so. Infact the UK has a literacy rate of 99%!
Could you imagine if I wrote my blogs like that? Or if you received a letter written like that. Its just not on.
I actually have a very good friend who gets mortified if a guy that she meets texts her like that or spells his words wrong. She sometimes forwards me the text and I have to tell her maybe it was a typo! Soon she is going to start sending them their texts back marked right!
So, I am aware we a nation who rush and seem to have no time, but I also feel it is important we maintain a standard so that our younger generation can utilise the English that they are being taught and not permanently slip into the language of the Internet.
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