T9 Speak

 In selecting a random thought, plucked idly from the recesses of my mind, I happened across a delectable nugget of little profundity but of entertaining value. It concerns language, a passion of mine, and of one of the people I admire most in this world. Someone passed comment of text speak and t9 language being annoying and not part of the english language and should somehow be outlawed, and this is where I dug in and sunk my teeth into this poor soul. To me it seems that these language snobs fail to remember their history. The english language is constantly evolving, it is a society driven beast. It absorbs the emotions and utterings of it's speakers and changes everyday. It is not rigid and does not follow the structure of other more static languages such as french. Therefore text speak, while admittedly being slightly annoying, is just as much a part of the language as the words written by Shelley and Shakespeare....