Loss Of Words

Now I know why I’ve been feeling slower and dumber as each day passes, because I use email, instant messaging, and my mobile phone every day! According to a Reader’s Digest poll taken across 1000 U.S. adults, our youth is suffering from a limited vocabulary. The culprit in this plot is technology, of course. Children are spending too much time on their mobile phones and computers thus hindering their vocabularies. It’s easy to see that if the children were out in the street playing football or at the park flying a kite, their vocabularies would be gargantuan.

The mind rotting disease of my generation was console video games. Most of my friends who dedicated every afternoon to Sega or Nintendo now work for video game manufacturers and love what they do. I’m wondering if this poll was taken among U.S. senior citizen adults? My grandmother was always complaining about technology and us lazy whippersnappers, ‘she didn’t have a calculator when she did arithmetic’. I can’t wait till I’m old enough to call that generation whippersnappers and complain about the price of movies and gas.

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