Rest in peace: English language.

A recent article in the newspaper intrigued me into writing this post. An issue of grave concern that is left unattended and unnoticed being thumped down by the layers of fast growing technology which has resulted in people using abbreviations in the worst possible method.

But I'm glad of one thing - Poets such as John Keats, Shakespeare and Emily Bronte are long dead to notice what has happened to the language they once mastered in and the worn out significance of literary devices. 

Otherwise they wouldn't have had to use such flowery lines, metaphors, personification, rhetoric and alliterations. 

"So with love -

Sighs from the deep sea of affection.

Laughter from the colorful field of the spirit

Tears from the endless heaven of memories."

Khalil Gibran's extract from the poem, 'The Song of Rain' embraced the incredible happiness that the rains bought with them and evoked our imagination to great heights by just a combination of words. But here we are, where the word 'stuff' stuffs itself across our urge to speak and we place it effortlessly when we are in debt for words. Not to forget, the conversation terminator- K. What K? Pottasium K? Sigh. 

They could simply use the omnipotent word "stuff" of today's language and the poems would result as such-

"So with love-

Sighs from deep sea and stuff.

Stuff from the colorful field of the stuff

Tears from the endless stuff of memories."

Moreover, the social networking sites give you an opportunity to notice the murder of the English language. 

Hey guyzzz, what's upzzz. HoW iS YoUr DaY gOiNg? 

What actually happens here? Does some part of the brain literally switch ON and OFF juggling between common sense and psychological bafflement? Do the fingers refuse to type in a particular case and twitch instead to use the shift key after every alphabet? No, you don't have to answer my questions. Just  provoked vexation. 

Back in the Elizabethan era, Shakespeare was  applauded for his classical insults. They were void of vulgarity or obscene words. But the usage of the literally devices; in so beautiful a language, was enough to choke anyone to death. 

"OSWALD

Why, what a monstrous fellow art thou, thus to rail
on one that is neither known of thee nor knows thee!"

A simple sentence with a metaphor usage perplexes the general public. It has to be summarized in words such as 'stuff' and 'and all' to actually provide the basic meaning as though it were a code to be cracked. A pitiful situation. Reading books by wonderful authors best known for their satire and literary devices stings me to not to belong to that era. Anguish, trauma, delightful-ness, exaggeration, displeasure and every other form of emotion could be amazingly formulated and produced. But the present scenario is just completely bizarre. Excitement, disappointment or anger, whatever the emotion might be, the four letter swear word is most famous and ready at the tip of the tongue to be uttered relentlessly. 

Call me old-fashioned, but  I prefer the Shakespearean-language: respect and awe in all leaps and bounds. 

Farewell, modern cruelty. I bid leave of you. 

Oh sorry, let me translate the above to the  21st century language- K.BYE.CYA.