English has been my favorite subject right from school days. I still vividly remember being taught when I was in UKG, that the English alphabet is divided into two sets, one set of letters called vowels and the other called consonants. I remember my teacher telling me that vowels are the base for many a words. From that day I always looked up to A, E, I, O, U and felt that these would be the building blocks to the literary world.
As time and generations evolved, so has the language. English was initially either American or British. But now there is Indian english, Hinglish and more recently Chinglish has started to come up as well. But the most intriguing form of english that is coming up is the SMS-ish and chat english. This english goes totally against the very basics of the language. Vowels are hardly in use, forget about they being the building blocks..
Consider the following..
whr r u gng...
lyf cn be vry brng re
c ya at d htl..
these lines definitely prove that vowels are no longer prominent in the new world english...
The very fact that all the vowels are only one pointers in Scrabble is in itself a testimony to the fact that they are the most repeated alphabets in word building..
Wonder how it feels to play scrabble now with the modern day english..
Hmmmm...
While the word life would have fetched u 7 points then..
Using modern english the word lyf would give u 9 points...and by using jus 3 letters instead of 4 :-)
:-) :-) Surely that sounds like a winning tip :-) :-)
PS : I am not trying to criticize or preach...Its just a random thought which was randomly put into random words...
tats it fr nw..err i meant that's it for now...:-)
