I’ve come across this “word” one too many times on the Internet today, and I’m flabbergasted that its use is becoming such commonplace. The word being “prolly” — which has to be a shortened Internet slang for probably — no doubt derived from some kind of MTV influenced Ebonics dialect.

While I take issue at the use of idiotic slang as a whole (I guarantee you’d hate to have a face to face conversation with me if you use it), the reason I take particular issue here is that this word, and others like it, regularly come from the mouths of college educated young adults — individuals who have been given a piece of paper stating that they worked hard to meet the rudimentary requirements to be productive, contributing members of society! This begs for the (rhetorical) question; What the heck has happened to our education system in the good old USA, anyway? Heh. Don’t even get me started on that one…

Now, I don’t claim to always have a complete handle on English grammar myself (when is it I should contract ‘its’ in the possessive?), but it worries me to think that the art of our spoken and written English language is slowly giving way to thug influenced slang as a means of acceptable communication.

Mark my words. I foresee a generation of slackers who speak in double-negatives and don’t know the difference between a preposition and a cucumber before Generation X finally passes away.