Downfall of the English Language.

Who needs terrorists and biological warfare when you have avid fourteen-year-olds like me roaming the streets talking in shorthand? Generation 86 (that’s my own name for teenagers these days. Don’t ask why.) has enough manpower to completely destroy the English language from the inside out. I really don’t deny it either. If anything, I myself find myself often fueling the fire of grammatical distress.

I know, you’re thinking “What? Alice? She hasn’t spelled a single word wrong in any of these blog posts! You must be mistaken.” And my only response to that is the fact that even though I have impeccable grammar in writing, even my friends have to decode my spoken language sometimes.

Below is a list of the top 10 things I say in regular conversation that may or may not send the earth tumbling towards the sun. Next to each thing, I’ve written what I probably should be saying instead:

1. Prolly (probably)
2. Ima (I am going to)
3. Deffintley (definitely)
4. Nassy (nasty)
5. Kay-kay (okay)
6. Mm-kay (okay)
7. Fo-sho (for sure)
8. Oh, no you di-int (burn!)
9. Diss (burn!)
10. Fo-shizzle (doesn’t mean anything)

With a vocabulary like that, I could probably single-handedly bring down all of Western civilization; so watch out, Chicago.*

* “Watch out, Chicago” is another weird thing I say. I doesn’t mean anything really, so no offense Chicagans.