the anti-demise of the english language.

so I was watching californication on my way to mcgill many moons ago and in one of the early episodes hank, the main character (as played by david duchovny), is dating a lady who uses "lol" and (to be facetious) "bj." you know, text/im language. in this episode hank (who also keeps a blog! but people pay him to do it, so we're a bit different I guess. he also fucks many, many people. another difference.) gets really super worked up about the "demise of the english language." he hates that technology and proper english are inversely proportionate; that with the increase in technology leads to the decrease in proper english and/or the ability to use the language correctly.

now I guess when this show was made (2007), blackberries weren't so popular, the iphone wasn't yet invented and the term "smartphone" hadn't yet been invented. funny just because "smartphones" are now ubiquitous...as in sometimes people (like my father) have two phones, one smart and one, well, stupid I guess (it just calls people, doesn't do much else). so with the rise of these smartphones and stupidphones with qwerty keyboards (what a silly thing to call a full keyboard, a qwerty keyboard!) I've noticed that people don't use little isms like "lol" and "btw" and "brb" as frequently anymore. maybe on im they do, but definitely not via text.

I just thought this was interesting because it shows the total shift in colloquial language based on the growth of technology. funny enough, the only person who still texts me using "2" instead of "to" and "r" instead of "are" is my mom, because she totally has this old school throwback '00s phone. and they say the youth is the problem? silly society, it's the old people who are still doin' it!

so I realized that there haven't been ANY music updates in a really long time. for that reason, check out:
#1. dr. dog (their album fate is pretty legit and their semi-new album shame, shame is alright, a little more in terms of yelling than on fate), and;
#2. the apples in stereo (just some groovy kinda jams). enjoy.