Monday, October 18, 2010

Loss of Language

A couple of years ago I started writing a book. Of course I didn't finish because of how obviously ridiculous and time consuming it was. "Izania" as it was called was about to lovers not meant for each others world. A modern "Romeo and Juliet" of sorts but angled toward the reading levels of teens. Both of these lovers were naturally born knowing the language English. Yet they had no ability,nor did they want to, to learn the language of their own people.
This correlates with what I am speaking about today.( I have decided to blog every day) Loss of language. The creatures in "Izania" loss their language because of threats of discovery. Today we ave absolutely no threats but are losing our language any way. Not just because of convenient technology but because we are simply lazy. We have dumbed down the way we think because of the inconvenience "long-winded" responses give. Not you? Think about it.
In an English class I took. Many of us had failed a certain spelling test. It was hard and confusing. It asked we too much from us. What was all of our excuses? We didn't know them. Granted we were still in school and many other thing, but a matter of fact we didn't know because we were immersed in the easy way out instead of actually learning.
Language is so important. If we loose what else do we have. What happened to those sweet sounding words that usually came out of one's mouth? The phrase "What's up?" won't help us in government. In a social life. In a career. Its the bases of all discoveries. We need our language. We need all those words to better define our lives for the people to come, for the next few generations.
What's crackin' , America?

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