The curtains are down and Kimi Raikkonen is world champion. What an amazing race it was!!! After a long long time I really enjoyed a formula one race for its entire duration. Excited, I messaged this junior of mine: “ Champ --> Kimi”. Just moments later, I got a reply: “I know, that’s so kewl!!” … And everything stops. This word “kewl” (= "cool") was the distraction needed to spoil the post-race conference. See, I get bothered about the smallest of things. When I encounter something new, I have to think about what caused this new discovery to take place. And if it’s about fake words, then be it.
Now, the reasons people use such words in spoken or written language are varied so I will need a few examples to cover them. Like the word “kewl”…. It has been made up in an attempt to convey a western accent in a written medium. Another made-up word is “y’all” (short form of “all of you”). This one was made in an attempt to sound keeewl!!! Then there is this word I got in some other sms: “Sowwy” (in place of “sorry"). This was an attempt to sound cute. But something is definitely wrong here. What these words were intended to do was not accomplished here. I mean, “sowwy” is a pronunciation of “sorry” I would expect from 4 year old American girls. So, when I hear a 20 yr old man using it, I don’t think of him as cute, I think of him as gay. And “y’all”?…. Have we just started merging any 2 words now? The picture this word paints is of some English rapper or eminem wannabe who unfortunately dropped out of school (and no, that’s not what the aim was).
People also write “ma” in messages instead of “my” and I don’t know why. Both forms are two-letter words so there is no time saving in sms typing. And changing one letter of a two-letter word changes its composition by 50 PERCENT!!!!! The list of these kinds of words is increasing very quickly.
Now why would anyone want to do such a thing to the beautiful words of the English language??? All I have to say is that if anyone wants to try something different, try something like adding French or Latin words to your vocabulary. Ma advice to y’all is that to be kewl, keep it clean people :-)…. Peace!
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heh..so 'kewl'!! ;) first reaction..who the hell is kimi raiko....aaahh 'wateva' ;) but all that follwed took me by surprise...nice selection of the fisrt topic..keep it going..'gud luck' :)
@ swati.. even I don't know who this kimi person is!! and yeah.. whatevaaa.. :D
Sidharth, the topic you've written on is very very relevant! There're times I'm chatting with people..and after 5-10 mintues only I've had to ask them to use proper english or say goodbye, just not being able to understand their (un)cool interpretation of words!
"american girls" was :D ..shit,some of the females I know should read this..!!
I could add on a few examples to the ones you've already given, but I guess your readers get the idea :)
Good one!
P.S. : While at it, write something on misuse of punctuations as well!
Puhhhhleeeeezz ;-)
ummmmm...finallyy got to read ur blog.....to add on to the stuff u have already addressed..there are some new words i came to know...there is this growing trend of people using "z" in place for "s".."sorry" becomes "zorry", "awesome" becomes "hawzzzoome"..come on people gimme a break....such a lame way to be cool, look cool....watever!!!
allrite then...keep putting in ur "kewl" stuff up!!!
have fun!!
cheers!!
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