a lot of prescriptive linguists (the fancy term for snotty english majors, faux-talgic baby boomers, racist gatekeepers, and other subdivisions of the language police) like to shame The Youth for lazy capitalization and punctuation, but the interesting thing is that most young ppl i know who build their lives around texting are actually pretty damn deliberate about their language choices
âuâ and âyouâ show degrees of closeness w/ your partner; using punctuation at the end of a reply text indicates tone; capitalizing certain words in the middle of the sentence is for Emphasis; sometimes weâre sloppy and sometimes we make mistakes but there is a real grammar to internet communication because by âgrammarâ i mean a âcode of language rules that society agrees upon in order to create meaningâ, and that is the opposite of being lazy
(tumblr absolutely has such a grammar and you can tell when someoneâs not fluent)
the old guard is passionately defending a pure linguistic territory that we donât want anymore, itâs not useful enough for 21st century relationships dependent on the subtleties of texts




















