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Hachi
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Why is it that in view of the fact that the internet has become a popular entity, English scores have gone down? And how is it that internet acronyms such as “lol†and “roflmao†and memes like “Over 9000!!!!!†and “C-c-c-c-c-c-combo Breaker†have found ways to infiltrate their way into Middle and High School (and in some cases College) classes?
An excellent explanation is that the younger half of my generation—the fourteen- though eighteen-year-olds—can’t seem to separate the virtual world from the real world; the two blend together more and more with every new game, instant messaging program, and cell phone. This excuse has been used since the Columbine High School Shooting of 1999 and the June 2003 police shooting committed by a “video-game obsessed†madman by the name of Dustin Lynch. Those two have been considered the “worst of the worst†of the “video game/reality confusion†problem that has been plaguing the world since the early 1990’s.
This confusion and fixation of electronic media has lead to major problems in the moral code, grammar, and spelling of many languages. New slang terms have even crawled out of the binary ether of the internet, words such as “meh†for example are now actually parts of the English dictionary now?! Really? Oh, yes, yes the world has sunk to that level.
This decay of the English language will lead to problems down the road: the definition of “Literature†will change dramatically; our offspring will be progressively ignorant to the intricacies of simple grammar, thus leading to education that focuses more on English then the current “Arithmetic and Applied Science†system. Television and its respective photoplays’ writing will lose its wit and intelligence that it has always been known for; thus cartoons will need to appeal to a more technology-oriented society leading to the problems listed in the former (the loss of wit, etc.)
Ultimately, the few of us concerned have no power in the matter; no ability to reverse the damage that has been done, little power in the changing of the ones who started the damn problem in the first place.
So, in retrospect think of this: are we sure we need this to continue to a stage where the world-at-large will view all English speaking nations as boorish cesspools of ignorant citizens?
An excellent explanation is that the younger half of my generation—the fourteen- though eighteen-year-olds—can’t seem to separate the virtual world from the real world; the two blend together more and more with every new game, instant messaging program, and cell phone. This excuse has been used since the Columbine High School Shooting of 1999 and the June 2003 police shooting committed by a “video-game obsessed†madman by the name of Dustin Lynch. Those two have been considered the “worst of the worst†of the “video game/reality confusion†problem that has been plaguing the world since the early 1990’s.
This confusion and fixation of electronic media has lead to major problems in the moral code, grammar, and spelling of many languages. New slang terms have even crawled out of the binary ether of the internet, words such as “meh†for example are now actually parts of the English dictionary now?! Really? Oh, yes, yes the world has sunk to that level.
This decay of the English language will lead to problems down the road: the definition of “Literature†will change dramatically; our offspring will be progressively ignorant to the intricacies of simple grammar, thus leading to education that focuses more on English then the current “Arithmetic and Applied Science†system. Television and its respective photoplays’ writing will lose its wit and intelligence that it has always been known for; thus cartoons will need to appeal to a more technology-oriented society leading to the problems listed in the former (the loss of wit, etc.)
Ultimately, the few of us concerned have no power in the matter; no ability to reverse the damage that has been done, little power in the changing of the ones who started the damn problem in the first place.
So, in retrospect think of this: are we sure we need this to continue to a stage where the world-at-large will view all English speaking nations as boorish cesspools of ignorant citizens?
luckily I realized in the 2nd paragraph and since I am a fast typer it didn't take me to long to re-write everything.
