Not That Bad...

 After reading this article from slat, What The... I realized, after not much reflection, i do this all the time. Not as much as the author emphasizes it, but i do, and many of my friends, and acquaintances do so too. After thinking about it for a while, i realized the reason we use this dot-dot-dot "short cut" is because we're lazy. Yeah, maybe it sometimes make sense and looks good, and is even appropriate. But it doesn't formalize a well structured sentence, or paragraph (except, obviously when its grammatically correct, following the English language rules). 

In  my opinion, ellipses are not that bad, and as the author notes out, they shoildent be "used in lieu of commas," or "as question mark replacements" or even " instead of a single period at the end of a statement". But I believe that in moderation they could even be accepted, even encojraged, in a writing piece.

And as for where the author talks about the over use of ellipses in texts or emails, i dont really find a problem in that. I mean, sure we already clarifyied that they are not the best for a formal writing piece. But when talking about emails, or even texts, which are usually to people close to us we familiarize with, exchanging writing shouldent have to be perfectly punctuated, or corrected grmmatically for all mistakes. 

Probably the constant texting a emailing with wrong spelling will lead to getting accustomed to do the same in important formal pieces. But adding a couple of more additional ellipses to these texts and emails, wont necessarily hurt anybody.

Purge The Comma!

Will We Use Commas in the Future

Never in the past had I thought that something such as the English language would actually continue to evolve. I mean yeah, it seems normal- nothing rare, but just something we don’t usually hear or learn about. And its not only me, in his article, Malady also points it out, “He says that Americans have become accustomed to an English language that doesn’t vary widely by region or over time”. To think that something as the common language developing- something we use at a daily base, and something our parents use (and used) the same was, it makes me-our generation feel old.

The first think I realized while reading Matthew J.X. Malady’s article Will We Use Commas in the Future, was the use of absolutely no commas. It bothered me at the beginning. Not because it was hard to understand, or written in an incoherent way. But because there were no commas! At all! And growing up learning to use them and being forced to constantly place them in each sentence, to now see that they could potentially be unnecessary was kind of troubling. Although, considering how uncomplicated Malady wrote his piece, without using commas kind of make sense to me. Yeah it may take a while to get accustomed to the idea -I tried to and couldn’t- but after all, change is always better right?

            After giving it some more thought, and wrapping my head around the idea, I believe our society could be ready to embark on a language that does not depend so contingently on the comma. I do trust that we could possibly manage to “purge”- as Malady puts it- the comma in our daily written language and still be able to structure a piece of writing fairly well. I don’t mean only in the act of “texting”, something we do every day all the time, but in actual school reports, or even work obligations. Yeah, probably I didn’t succeed to do so (probably making this whole piece ironic), but Malady did, and therefore, we could all get adapted to do the same. He says in his piece: “we’re pretty creative and capable when it comes to dealing with such language issues”, and he is right, we could ultimately get adapted to the privation of the comma too. After all, commas are what make placing semicolons and colons complicated; they are just there to ease making mistakes. Lets take a chance and develop our language.