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| 'The slow death of the English language?', Pencil on paper |
The iconography of the skull will forever be closely linked to death and also Hamlet with its famous 'to be or not to be' soliloquy, it's normally one of the first things that comes to mind for me anyway... so the concept for this came from reading a ridiculous story once that in order to get High School students interested in Shakespeare it was going to be converted to 'txt speak', Apparently the notion is that it would help students to understand Shakespeare more easily which is quite possibly one of the most idiotic and counter productive things I have ever heard in my life... 'txt speak' is one of those things which I tend to use as sparingly as possible as it is, mostly as it irritates the hell out of me, It's also something which for the most part tends to make little or no sense... especially when an entire sentence is constructed with words that don't have any vowels or letters are inexplicably replaced by similar sounding letters.
e.g " i iz soz 4 d smellzzzz u hd 2 sufr i juz pizzd myslf n dud a shet n meh pantz"
You need a fucking translator and a instruction manual to even come close to understanding half the stuff people write, honestly Shakespeare must be spinning on his own axis in his grave he's so angry... and in a bid to anger his bard ghostly self once more I found an excerpt from the aforementioned Hamlet Soliloquy lovingly reconstructed into idiot speak:
"2 b, r nt 2 b dat iz d Q wthr ts noblr n d mnd 2 sufr d slngs & arowz of outrAjs fortn r 2 tAk armz agnst a C f trblz, & by oposn nd em?"
The slow death of the English language indeed... will the over use of 'txt speak' slowly dumb down the masses, is it better '2b' or would you rather 'not to be'? That's essentially what the drawing references... well that and skulls look pretty cool!
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