The rate at which short codes have taken over our writing skills, especially that of the youth, the future leaders of tomorrow is alarming. Everyone, including myself see it as a shorter and faster way of writing. Off course it is, I concur. But of recent I have come to realise that even the simplest of words is abbreviated. Thus, leading me to come to the conclusion that we are becoming too lazy, so much that spelling out our words completely, and correctly is too much of a burden.

Been ruminating over this trend for a while now and I feel its high time we put this into check.

For instance; I write to someone stating that I may not be able to make it for a proposed get together and I get this response 'k' or ‘kkk’, and I’m wondering the time spent in writing so many 'k’s' can actually be spared by just writing ‘Okay’. Don’t you think so?

I can go on and on with so many examples but we all know them, we come across them every day. It’s becoming the norm and its even like a disease if you do not use short codes when writing.

Trust me! It takes a conscious effort to minimise its usage or even stop using them completely but it’s worth it. I am certain that in the long run, some of us may even forget how to spell the words correctly or even mistakenly use them to answers questions during examination.

Prevention they say is better than cure. For the younger generation, we know they tend to pick up things quickly, so we must act now by showing good examples. Here’s the teaser: How do we begin to teach them the right things if we don’t imbibe them now?

Let us all make the effort and say to ourselves ‘I won’t be using these short codes anymore except off course when necessary’.

I can, You can; Yhu cn (lol)! We know what’s right

Cheers