The Beeping Business

Where this twenty-first century has revolutionized the world by bringing us the technology we never imagined of, it has also transformed our language as well. They say language is the ‘mirror of the mind’. It is true that language reflects our personality and attitude towards other people. No matter how educated or learned we become, the language we use alone has the power to build or crush our image.

            Sadly, the young generation of this age is least bothered about the importance of use of immaculate language. They believe that the frequency of use of four-letter-words in their conversation would give impact to their argument and make them seem ‘cool’. Their language motto is ‘the polluted it gets the modish it is’. A Couple of weeks back one of my van mates, who is two years junior to me, updated her status on Facebook being furious about the omelet she made in which she forgot to add salt. She expressed her frustration in some beeped words that I don’t think are appropriate to mention here. I observed that her status received a considerable amount of 'likes' and comments as compared to her other status updates. So basically that girl was seeking attention and she pulled it off, using foul language. I’m not trying to be a moral-police here by passing judgements on others’ code of behaviour (like the morning show hostesses). However, the trending of the atrocious slangs among youngsters has become quite a disturbing situation.

            What is even more upsetting is that the kids who master the skill of imitation adopt the foul language from their surroundings and their parents blame ‘the idiot box’ for that which is totally uncalled for. It is not the television but ourselves who are responsible for that. We encourage our kids by laughing it off when they curse for the very first time instead of rebuking them.

            I have complained my heart out like I’m some saint. And for the record, I’m anything but saint, period. But I try to limit the use of four-letter-words in my conversation. I don’t think that the use abusive language would give weight to my nonsensical and hollow arguments. I don’t believe that if I put up status update cursing teacher for designing a complicated paper for which I have not studied at all, would make people sympathize with me. All I know is that this beeping, bleeping business is not so ‘cool’. What makes you ‘C.O.O.L’ (if you want to be categorized as cool) is that how you string your words in a sentence and make use of them effectively. Your quick wit and good humour differentiates you from other people. In fact, it is not that hard to use plain language for a change. Your tongue might not be able to glide smoothly to utter those simple, sweet words in the beginning but it will get adapted to them eventually. And who knows you might even like it.

P.S: You are warned, please don’t waste your time reading this piece if you belong to that category of ‘cool’ because it is most likely to aggravate you.

Author: E.B (Extraterrestrial Being)