[dropcap]I[/dropcap] dislike it when people communicate like they have a second-grade education, their words not having any sort of meaning. It makes me think that this generation -- the teenagers, college students, and even some adults -- simply don't care about quality colloquy any longer. Instead, they'd prefer to throw away all the grammatical things they learned in school to make their lives just that much easier.
But things don't need to be easier -- that will just ruin us, especially in this case.
Indolence is the excuse for this. Most of the "educated" population doesn't even care to communicate in an educated manner, but would rather do what's more convenient and fast for them. People even neglect to use spellcheck, not thinking of any consequence to the decision.
The ellipsis has become omnipresent and now represents something as ridiculous as being too lazy to use a period. Other reasons could be that the person simply does not know how to construct a simple sentence and just wants to leave you guessing.
Another example of such grammar crimes would be that people don't even use the original ellipsis -- they use something like "......." for added drama. The worst adaption of an ellipsis is the ".." solution. If you even respect the English language at all, you'd hate this.
What is this language? Netglish? Neglectish?
These users of what used to be slang have destroyed the English language. (I say English only because I don't know how bad others have become on the Internet.)
So who's responsible for this atrocity? Is it the academic system? If that, is it the teachers or the students? Is it the process by which they learn? Is it the ADD the Internet has given younger people? I could ask these questions all day; I only have one answer though.
I think it's a combination of the students and teachers' fault. The students just need to start caring more about what school is for and the teachers need to care more about the students. There's a lot more than this and it really varies on the person, but students really do need to understand why learning proper communication skills is so valuable.
This is the time of such great achievements in technology and communication, but we're redefining communication. People don't care about grammar on the Internet anymore -- they'll just use it in school when they have to.
If this continues, could real grammar be lost? Has technology, which we've come to know for so many things, become our worst enemy, hurting our communication skills? We can improve in one area, but there will always be something that we left out.
Science, history, mathematics -- none of these are as important as basic communication is. If our children grow up thinking that this Netglish -- or whatever you wish to call it -- is our language, then we've done something terribly wrong.
It's just something to think about.