m hir na.

I’m baaaaack.  Somewhat.  Over the next few days I will be updating my blog, possibly double- or triple-posting until I’m finally in sync.  Okay, I’ll try my best.  I can’t do a ketchup post, because doing that meant a long article for just a week of non - posting.  I’ve been gone a little over a month and that would probably mean a really, really, really long article (me being me).  No can do.  So, unti - untiin.
   
But first things first: Although I am a certified gadget junkie, I have not quite acquired the “taste” for the shorthand writing that comes with some of the new technology.  Wat I min 2 say is dat I cnt ryt dis way.  I2ng gngwa q d2 sobra2 n.  Okay, so I can.  But I won’t.  I haven’t felt the need for it.  I thumb-type pretty fast, so no problem there.  And I can read the darn things very well, too.  I’m good with languages, and I daresay this is a new language of sorts.  I just won’t do it.  I’m truly, truly not being a snob here.  I just want to keep doing it the regular way.  

A friend of mine says it’s quicker and much easier 2 do it dis way.  Writer Isagani Cruz says text message - writing can actually help gauge how well today’s youth read and write, and can even help sharpen their grammar skills.  I think he’s right.  See, if a person sends a text message, he obviously wants that message to be understood.  Now, if he writes d msg dis way and expects to be understood, then he must know which vowels to drop, how to properly combine letters and the right - sounding numbers (so he must know how to properly pronounce words, too) into words, and how to arrange the words in a manner that will be understood.  Therefore, he must know correct grammar.  The same goes for the one receiving and reading the message.  Then there’s Dot Mobile, a company offering mobile phones to students.  They’ve just recently begun a service that provides student subscribers with text message - style summaries of literary classics (as in “2b or nt 2b”).  This can’t hurt.  If it’ll get people to read the classics and understand them, then I’m all for it.

But I don’t think I’ll do it.  I really love words and I’d much, much rather see them whole.  But that’s just me.  Go ahead and send me those shorthand messages because I can handle them (wag lang yung over. “Q” replacing “ko” is just plain irritating.  So is “Gd pm pooh“.  That’s another story.).  And I’ve been known to drop a vowel here and there din naman.  But that’s as far as I’ll go.

To close: this is my second post after a long hiatus, and there will be more updates.  But I won’t write them in shorthand. Nt netym soon.  <—- Kidding.