As I sit down to write this first blog (drafted on paper if you would believe) I’ve tried to think of what the most apt topic would be. I feel it most fitting to use the magical technology of the Internet to reflect on what its creation has caused some of us to lose.
The art of communication has evolved unheeded since mankind muttered his first discernable grunt. It has taken many forms through various languages, written text and has blessed us with poetry and song. However, over perhaps the past fifteen years our ability to express ourselves has begun to diminish, we have become Twitterfied, status updaters who have cre8ted crude lazy LOL text msg language to convey our thoughts quickly and succinctly. For the first time in our history we are cutting words from our dictionaries and thus our vocabularies to make way for new acronyms and lexicon.
Should we accept this ‘progress’ that simplifies our language? Should we instead begin a call to action, nay a movement, to save our expressiveness, to liberate our obscure adjectives and optimise our wonderful ability to really accentuate what we see and feel with verve, finesse and vigour?
ZHC believes so, and feels some things should be done the ‘old fashioned’ way, with pride, dedication and above all a determination to complete tasks with thoroughness, free of cheap easy shortcuts.
To conclude this introductory post I would like to sign off with some words I hope we never lose, words previous generations worked hard to instill in our lives and vocabulary.
Honour, tradition, respect, culture and beauty.
S.R.
Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?... Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?... The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
– George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 5
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