Texting, and the Evolution of Language

LANGUAGES, LIKE THEIR INVENTORS, are constantly evolving, slowly. Hence we have ancient and modern Greek, ancient and modern Hebrew, and medieval and modern English, which is a younger language. In America we speak a mongrel language, based on German, with healthy doses of French, Nordic, Latin, and a few others thrown in. Thus the English language has roughly one million words, more than any other, and is the mose widely spoken language in the world. Something like forty percent of all people who speak a second language speak English as their second language. Of the seven to eight thousand spoken languages currently in the world, most of the world speaks one of the most popular ten, and every year, several dozen little used languages actually become extinct, just as surely as plants and animals. But,just as we now have the ability to bring back to life extinct plants and animals, so we have the power to bring back dead languages. When was in high school, eons ago, Latin was on the curriculum. Now, it generally isn't. If you read letters written by Americans in the eigteenth and nineteenth centuries you are astounded by how well people wrote and spoke, how "properly", using the King's English. Poorly educated young soldiers in the civil war wrote letters to loved ones back home using eloquent flowing, beautiful English. And their handwriting was impeccably neat, and stylish. Now we are all forgetting how to write in cursive, or how to hold a pencil or pen, and school childern are no longer taught cursive; instead, they are taught keyboarding. The evolution of English is proceeding more rapildy than ever before, as computers texts, tweets, and twitters change the way we talk 2 each other. Our grandchildren's grandchildren will scarcely recognize early twenty first century American English as comprehensible, just as we verily scratcheth our heads at thine linguistic heritage. LOL, U R 2 kewl, roflmfao, & brb. Yo.