What I have noticed since texting became a way to communicate, the short cut phrases have become main stream and is here to stay. Even school teachers in my district have been known for accepting papers turned in by their students, using text verbiage, and their students will not loose any grade points for poor grammar.
Hell, I don't think cursive writing is taught anymore in my district.
What could be worse?
I can understand most of the abbreviations, misplaced or incorrectly used punctuation marks, misspelled words, etc., as discussed in this thread, but the one that really has me confused is the newer spoken language of Ebonics.
Lets think about that for a minute. This is a language that is relatively new and from what I've observed is commonly used in lower income, African American communities, but how it became a new language or how it initially started and became as common as it is today, is unknown.
I stumbled on a website that lets you translate Ebonics.
For kicks, I entered a simple sentence in the website's translation tool as: My Imperial is a big car.
The Ebonics translation of this simple sentence is: Yo! My Imperahal ahs a bahg rahzza. Sheeeiit.
Would anyone here be able to decipher that phrase?