No, this isn’t another episode of “The Twilight Zone.” This is everyday life.
You see, I was just walking to my next class today, which happened to be Art. A 9th grader by the name of “Josh” wasn’t paying attention, and walked into a door. Now, amazingly, no one said, “Oh, are you okay?” or, “Ouch.”
The collision was met with a chorus of, “Owned!”
My friend Emma was in Spanish an hour later, and she was sitting next to my good friend, Xan. Now, Xan didn’t study very well for her last quiz. As Emma recieved her grade, she was filled with euphoria. “A ninety-eight! Woot!” Xan was positive she’d get just as good of a grade, even though she didn’t study. However, she was wrong. As Mrs. Dolphin passed the test to Xan, she commented, in English, “I’m dissapointed in you, Pepita.” On her paper was a 76, circled in red marker. Now, Emma, also one of my good friends, would have been expected to say, “I’m sorry, Xan. I guess it just wasn’t your day,” For she herself was good friends with Xan.
That wasn’t the case.
“Lol, Xan, you were just owned so bad.”
No, I’m not abbreviating. She had said, quite literally, “Ell oh ell.”
Try to imagine how dissapointed Dr. Smith was when Sean had handed in a paper that looked something like this: “i think that peter + graff have sum personality traits in common. graff isnt sry about wat he dos 2 humans + peter dosnt care too.”
And try to imagine how shocked Sean had been when Dr. Smith hadn’t accepted it.
It’s a brain-killing plague, seeping into the minds of humans everywhere. People ages 7-18 are becoming infected world-wide, substituting common words with one-letter-statements and using unecessary acronyms in every-day speech. Is it really so hard to type up a bit of homework without using the word “UR” and without leaving your letters unecessarily lower-case? That’s a rhetorical question, folks, for I’ve known the answer for quite some time.
“No.”
It isn’t that hard to type up homework without “UR” and without “i’m” and “u”. It isn’t impossible to take “Lol!” out of your oral vocabulary.
I’m not saying that when you’re on the computer, you can’t say “lol” or even leave your letters lowercase. I’m guilty of uttering the ever-popular “lmao” every once in a while.
I’ve just got one small question for you all to think over whilst you miss the “shift” key.
Is it really necessary?
Thank you, and goodnight. Panda has left the building.
~Panda <2
P. S. Comment, puh-lease.
P. P. S. Ryan again wishes to claim that he has made up the nick-name Panda for me. So, don’t claim that you made it up for me. Or else he’ll attack you.
Did he really expect Dr.Smith to accept a paper like that?
It’s really pathetic, actually. And, on top of that, Dr. Smith had said that Sean wasn’t the first to hand in a paper like that.
Sad, no?
I agree with you 100%! I am sick and tired of seeing this. Sometimes I forget to capitilize my i’s but usually, even on msn, i use proper grammar. It’s not hard at all and it really bothers me! I find myself correcting people often enough when they decide that “girl” is now “gurl” even though it would have been simple to just PUT AN I NOT A U! GAHHHH! Anyway *claps* thank you!
Alas, someone has read my blog! xD
Or even, I’ve seen “grl.” I don’t really understand why most people insist on writing that way. =/
I decided to write this blog when people started saying “Owned!” out-loud. That really got to me, you know?
Much of the new generation of children are pathetic in terms of grammar and maturity.
It gets really annoying when a level 49 says, “hey cn u gve me sum meso plz ur so pro”.
When someone does that in school, it’s just idiotic.
i dont mind on IM or any online game. but at school, that is just really pathetic and sad. i mean, who on earth says “LOL” in an essay. or w/e
It gets really annoying when a level 49 says, “hey cn u gve me sum meso plz ur so pro”.
When someone does that in school, it’s just idiotic.
Exactly.
And thanks for commenting. This blog isn’t doing as well as the “Finally, I’m categorized” one,
And, so you know, I am a part of the new generation of childeren. If you’d like, you can read a blog I made two blogs ago. Named, “Finally, I’m categorized.”
It gets really annoying when a level 49 says, “hey cn u gve me sum meso plz ur so pro”.
When someone does that in school, it’s just idiotic.
Exactly.
And thanks for commenting. This blog isn’t doing as well as the “Finally, I’m categorized” one.
And, so you know, I am a part of the new generation of childeren. If you’d like, you can read a blog I made two blogs ago. Named, “Finally, I’m categorized.”
I decided to write this blog when people started saying “Owned!” out-loud. That really got to me, you know?”
I say it every now and then at school. Why not? I think it’s funny since everyone is so “proper” and whatnot. Why not say LOL or ROLF or Owned every now and then? I do. . .
Sorry, when I edited my past post it made a new comment. I didn’t mean for that to happen. My apologies.
Because it isn’t “every now and then” anymore. It’s after everything. And instead of being concerned or polite, it’s “OWNED!”
LOL and ROFL and “Owned” isn’t annoying to say online. It’s when we’re at school, and people are polluting the air with “Ell oh ell, Stephanie, that’s so funny.”
LOL and ROFL and “Owned” isn’t annoying to say online. It’s when we’re at school, and people are polluting the air with “Ell oh ell, Stephanie, that’s so funny.””
Hmm. . . I think that is a problem at your school. I RARLY ever hear anyone saw LOL, ROFL, and I have never heard anyone say OWNED, except me. I don’t think too many people at my school use things like IM or computers in generall.
If the students in my class handed in essays like that to my teacher, he would fail us. I mean, 0 %.
Which is why he didn’t accept it.
*Claps* Nice blog. >>;