Are "sms" and "IMs" ruining the english language....

=== ARGUMENTS === 1. The English Language is Already Ruined. There are so many things wrong with the English language, oh where do I start! a. The English language is the epitome of an incomprehensible labyrinth of pointless rules and contradictions to those rules. Need I go in-depth? Just look at the words "tough" and "through". Why in the world do they mix the o, u, g and h letters together in-order to make the F or OO sound? Don't even get me started on the word "bologna"(for those who may not know, it's pronounced bu-loe-nee). English is meant to have a phoneme alphabet which means each letter represents a specific sound [1]. This is opposed to a syllabogram alphabet which would have each letter represent a syllable [2] or a logogram alphabet that would have each letter represent a word [3]. Alas, English is a complete and utter failure at achieving a proper and efficient phoneme system. Each letter can make a wide variety of sounds or stand there with absolutely no meaning and be silent, some sounds don't have their own letter and when some letters are combined they change their sound entirely to one that in no way entails the individual sounds these letters make apart from each other. b. The English language does not possess enough words for effective communication of concepts. Just take the word "love" for example. Those who speak English find it nearly impossible to give a proper definition for the word love because it is used for so many different concepts. "I love this pizza", "I love my siblings", "I love my friends", "I love my wife", "I'm gonna love you all night long", "You look lovely"; according to the English language these are all the same concept, but they are not. Many other languages have separate words for these expressions. c. Not only can letters have separate sounds but words can have separate meanings. Not in the same sense of the word "love", which unfortunately tries to describe a single concept, but completely unrelated concepts. "I'm going to take a little run", "I can't get the machine to run", "Help me row the boat", "Lets sit in the first row", "You are as light as a feather", "Can you see the light", "I'm doing well", "I'm in a well". d. Words may mean something else and be spelled a different way, yet they sound the same. "Two", "too", "to", "they're", "their", "there", "sow", "so", "hi", "high", "right", "write". e. The English language is riddled with unnecessary complexity. There is so much that I can't cover it all here, but here are a few more examples. The "I before E, except after C" rule; it is an absolutely pointless rule that is often contradicted. "Science", "ancient", "deficient", "neighbor" and "weigh" all defy the rule. Plurals; most of the time we just put an S on the end of words to designate that there are more than one, but often there are exceptions. "Geese", "sheep", "oxen", "cacti", "fish" and "data"(do you even know what the singular of data is? It's datum. ), just to name a few. As you could see, some words don't even change at all. Why don't we just put an S at the end of all of them? Because people are stupid, that's why. f. The purpose of language is to effectively communicate concepts from one to another. Our ability to do that is greatly hindered with so much pointless complexity and inconsistency in our language. It takes much longer in our childhood than it should to speak and write properly. I would go as far to say that most adults don't even have it figured out. My mom is always saying "aten" instead of "eatin", no matter how many times she's corrected. 2. Text Language has the Right Idea Simplification is exactly what our language needs and that is what this modified text English is offering us. If we had just let go of institutionalized language and let it naturally evolve likes it's meant to, we may just have the perfect language by now. It's not too late to do that. Let language evolution take it's natural course and it will grow into something much more effective. I anticipatively turn the floor over to my opponent. === REFERENCES === 1. . http://en.wikipedia.org... 2. . http://en.wikipedia.org... 3. . http://en.wikipedia.org...