Here’s the funny part: I spent more than 18 years of my life trying to perfect my English as much as possible in English class. My teacher used to be very strict about proper grammar and spelling, alongside punctuation and clarity. That’s why, by the time I graduated high school, I had no problem writing a 2000-word academic essay analyzing the colors mentioned in The Great Gatsby in under 2 hours. In that sense, a part of me thought adult life was going to require the most sophisticated use of the English language. That is, until I got my first job. It was a social media-related job, and my writing style was highly challenged, because my manager wanted my text to feel a lot “trendier”. So, I went from looking at my always trusty connectors chart to trying to figure out what “G2G”, “PAW,” and “TFW” meant.
That said, it is a good time to remember the ever-changing nature of languages. They are not static mixtures of letters. On the contrary, they are always transforming and adapting to the societies that use them. Part of these normal changes includes words that are born from abbreviations, new words that come into the dictionaries, and older words that slowly stop being used. Similarly, we need to continue adapting to the changes made to the language we speak, including new words in our vocabulary and learning new grammar rules, as we make fun of how absurd the following sentence sounds: I will yeet my memes at you to make you laugh.