Abbrevs r totes sew adorbs! (X^2 pg 133)

Every generation keeps getting dumber and dumber, and the language of each generation exemplifies this. When you listen to conversations between people of this generation, you'll probably hear them using abbrevs (abbreviations, ex: presh, supes, totes, adorbs), texting talk (ex: lol, btw, omg, wuts up?, u r kewl, <3) or words without the true meaning to express their thoughts. It's ridiculous, isn't it? My auto-correct in Safari is going crazy with all of these crazy ways to spell things. If someone older who was not well-versed in texting language heard people of this generation talking to each other, they would probably not understand much. Abbrevs are sweeping the nay-sh (nation), as someone I know would say. And this is, sadly, true.

Text messaging seems to be the culprit. People have become too lazy to type out the whole word, so abbrevs and txt talk were born. They make life simpler for those who aren't tech-savvy. For example, my mom is a frequent user of this kind of language when texting me, but I understand that typing out the whole word for her is too time-consuming because she struggles finding the letters for the word in a timely fashion (even though the keyboard is the same as a regular computer keyboard but smaller...). Try not to hate on me too much since I may seem like a hypocrite in saying this, but I have also conformed to using this kind of language. But, most of the time I use it when I'm joking around with my friends. Or when I abbreviate what I say in text messages, I do so because I don't have time or two free hands to type out whole words.

I would NEVER talk/text like this in normal situations. That wud just be totes ridic! Kidding.

To add to the madness, our generation has twisted words to have new meanings, such as sick, tight, ill, and beast, to name a few. These words are often used as synonyms to words like: cool, amazing, or awesome. But in reality, those words are not even close in meaning to cool, amazing, or awesome. When people say something like, "That movie was so sick!",  I cringe. The movie does not have an illness. And what about the word "beast"? Every time someone says "That was totally beast!", I just shudder. "Beast" is typically used when describing a monster... So no, that was not totally beast because it's not going to cause you harm or eat your innards.