Language - back to the basics!

Yesterday I was talking to a friend of mine on how much text messaging has changed and how ubiquitous it has become. Even the SMS editors have matured multi-fold, from a simple text editor to word-guess to word-complete to heuristic based word-suggestion. It is all available in that small mobile phone!

Now, it is another matter, there are many users out there to whom all these additional features are unnessorory. There are SMS experts out there! There was this girl that I had seen at a shopping mall. She was standing in the queue in front of me at the billing counter. She was talking to her friend standing next to her and at the same time she was texting at an amazing speed. Ping pong, ping pong, she was flooded with SMSes and all she needed was just her right hand thumb. She was typing so efficiently and effortlessly. I have seen that many people do not need the advanced text editing features. The have invented their own way of messaging, with short words. For example 'great' is not 'great' anymore. It is just 'gr8' and so on. You know better, I dont have to get into the details.

We continued discussing on transformation of languages and scripts. I mentioned, if this state continues then one day we will see people communicating using symbols as people had been doing thousands of years ago! For which my friend responded, yeah! you will never know. We look at the scripts as if it was written by some immaturecivilizations. May be they were so advanced that they did not need the our complicated languages. All they needed was their sign languages. At that very moment we stopped talking and got lost in our own thoughts!