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Originally Posted by Doktor Faust
A short reply- if younger children are picking up on the interent slang lately, and by slang, I'm mostly pointing at abbreviations (i.e. "u", "u're" etc...) I can only see vocabulary deteriorating over time. Or maybe that's just me. Crazy... leet. *shrugs*
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I think this is inevitable and also desirable. Language is an evolving structure and as such needs to adapt to the needs of people.
The short words like "u", "me 2", "y" etc are mostly due to the new technology that was SMS and mobile phones. It is probably not going to last, because the technology is evolving to make it easier to use shortcuts but transmit full text. Like my mobile phone, I can use "smart text" which lets me write full words with only a single press on each key (it will guess the words, and mostly gets them right).
