Newspeak

In his famous anti communist work "1984", George Orwell talked about a language called Newspeak. It is "the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year." I personally found 1984 to be overtly communist phobic. But the current rise of SMS lingo, coupled with lolspeak seems to be doing the job just fine and that too in a non communist,bloodless way. We don't say a lot of stuff sometimes this days, just use a little smiley and that does the job. Funny, interesting,great all might be given by the "smiling" smiley. And what about lolspeak?? These things are doing nothing but shrinking the vocabulary and expressions.

There is a rather friendly application that is actually harming the language. I am talking about the ubiquitous spell checker. We all use it. I don't know if it has ever happened to you, but my confidence in spelling has gone down quite a bit after I started using spell checker in gmail and elsewhere. We are getting stuff done too easily and if things go along these lines it won't be too long before `oldspeak' or English becomes `newspeak'.