The end of mi

Since I was in High School (back in the late 90′s), I’ve had a computer. This was back when computers were much more expensive than they are now, and only privileged people or computer analyst state workers had access to the internet. My Mother was the latter. These were the days of BBS, IRC and eventually AOL 1.5! The internet was sort of new to me at that time. I say “sort of” because I had already experimented with the computers whenever I visited Moms work. Anyhoo, when I would visit BBS’s and various chat rooms and forums, I would always spell “my” and “me” simply with “mi”. Back then, I felt like this set me apart from others on the internet. It wasn’t an original idea at all, but I felt as though it were. People used to notice it whenever I would be typing. It was mi own little signature. Shit, girls dug it!

Flash forward to the present day. I have become somewhat of a snob on these social networking sites. I cant frigging stand when people have constant spelling and grammatical errors. Now, understand; One need not be a perfect speller or have excellent punctuation and grammar. Hell, I often don’t use punctuation at all, and still use (SP?) for words that I can’t spell.  However, I think you come across as an idiot if you are always tweeting shit like, “yo dis saterday iz goin down! wii doin werk ova hear!”. Seriously, folks. This is the reason I don’t follow many people back on twitter. I’m too old to try to read that bullshit. Whats worse, some of these violators are older than me! I also see many people using “mi” the same way that I have, up until now. It just isn’t fun to use anymore. In fact, in my little circle of Hip Hop enthusiasts, it is rare to see someone posting anything close to English. So rare, in fact, that posting anything with correct spelling and/or punctuation is almost unheard of (unless people are quoting something that they’ve copied and pasted)!

So, Im going to be “original” and “different” by spelling things the best I can, using spell-check whenever available, and no longer using the trademark that I have held so dear to me for the past 17 years. This will take much practice, as I have been using “mi” when referring to miself in text messages, on forums and across the internet, since I was too young to buy cigarettes and porn! Hopefully, the trend will catch on and people will start spelling like grown-ups.

Den imma start tipin lyk dis, cuz i stae too steps ahead ov deez nyukkas! u steel caint si mi!

21.Jul.10 Dork, Geek Thuggery Comments (7)