bang bang, shoot shoot...

i was presented with an article about the decline of our fair language and how those interested in it's manipulation are handling it. it's an intriguing read for a few reasons, but i think it fails to capture the true reasons wordophiles across the nation are revolting.

the article touches on a few reasons for people correcting these spelling errors, things like obsession or empowerment. seems like naive reporting, to me.
for me these errors come across mostly as insulting. surely people make mistakes, everyone is bound to screw up the "your" and "you're" at some point. but the fact remains, they let these mistakes out. it is within their power to read over the words they've put down, to edit before publishing, as it were. if people took a minute to read over what they've written a great number of those mistakes would be caught. it's a simple matter of laziness in regards to the english language, brought on by lack of respect for the language and of all things technology.

on the technology side, we have these devices that were meant to propel us forward into the future. we've established human connectivity to a disturbing level. we're able to locate people instantly, tracking with gps or satellites, cellphones, anything with a digital signal. and with pinpoint accuracy.
you can contact anyone at any point of the day, considering cellphones are now just as mandatory to the human system as say, the heart. it is these devices that have stunted our wordplay. rather than giving people the opportunity to express themselves verbally they have instead molested our understanding of the language and how it operates.
letters dropped from words, all for the sake of speed? that text message about where you are really should be sent out within the next fifteen seconds. imagine, if it wasn't sent out within thirty seconds ...? well, fuck. i don't even want to think about the destructive possibilities of an event like that.
the devices built to connect us have done just that, but in the process they've disconnected us from our language.

but what can you expect from a country like this? we fail to see the importance of language on any level. we refuse to teach our children other languages in schools, though the majority of nations outside the united states have children study multiple languages in their early years. instead we're interviewed on local television stations saying things like,"they should all just learn to speak american!"
if we don't even have the foresight/intelligence/decency to learn the languages of the other countries we share this limited space with what reason do we have to invest time in our own language?

just feels like we're loading a few more bullets into the chamber for that final game of russian roulette.