{"id":15722,"date":"2002-07-11T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-11T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/11\/curmudgeon-further-proof-that-todays-youth-is\/"},"modified":"2002-07-11T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-11T19:40:00","slug":"curmudgeon-further-proof-that-todays-youth-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/11\/curmudgeon-further-proof-that-todays-youth-is\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;curmudgeon&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>Further proof that today&rsquo;s youth is losing their grasp on proper English is given by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/wireless\/0,1382,53659,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;lingo&rdquo; used in <acronym title=\"Short Message Service\">SMS<\/acronym> mobile phone systems<\/a>.  Granted, this is not a phenomenon exclusive to our youngsters, as the use of SMS-capable mobile phones is quickly gaining ubiquity in the population at-large.  And I realize that part of the reason for the lingo is to keep messages short so that they cost less.  Still, I see this as just another dumbing-down of the language to a generation already  inundated by TV and radio programs where personalities use horrible grammar and pronunciation, to say nothing of the proliferation of &ldquo;dialects&rdquo; like Ebonics (sorry, I had to mention it).  Anyway, the story mentions a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transl8it.com\/index.cgi?convert\" target=\"_blank\">website called transL8it! to help translate between &ldquo;English and Lingo&rdquo;<\/a> and vice versa in case anyone&rsquo;s interested.  Sigh, I guess I can either bitch about it or go out and get my own so I can be &ldquo;with it.&rdquo;<br \/>\n<br \/>&lt;\/curmudgeon&gt;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-85240374?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;curmudgeon&gt; Further proof that today&rsquo;s youth is losing their grasp on proper English is given by the &ldquo;lingo&rdquo; used in SMS mobile phone systems. Granted, this is not a phenomenon exclusive to our youngsters, as the use of SMS-capable mobile phones is quickly gaining ubiquity in the population at-large. And I realize that part of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/11\/curmudgeon-further-proof-that-todays-youth-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}