I believe it is deploring how present generations are approaching language and proper writing. In this article from Slate it explores the future that commas are facing, and the unfortunate reality that awaits us. People, but adolescents especially, are becoming lazier and swag has taken over control. There should be a limit to which language is permited to change. For instance, I agree with casual writing an texting, or bloggers, but I don't agree with those that take writing as a joke and underestimate its power.
Wait, what? There aren't going to be any more commas in the future? Hah, This is one of the most absurd things i've heard before. With technology language has been changing and new forms, words and ways of writing have been developing. It is okay to understand and accept how people are starting to write nowadays: very informally. However, there is a border where informality crosses and writing becomes pure barbaric slang and what has been known as proper english, crumbles down. If deleting commas is the next step towards accepting change, in the future: "y'all be t@lk!nG l!ke tHiZ, c@uz @!nt nOboBy got time fo DAt"
I believe people should acknowledge the fact that if a text isn't formal, it doesn't mean its wrong. Many people live from of profits made in their writing blogs, or social networking accounts. Language is declining and going downhill towards a language where LOL is replaced by a comma, and where the "i" is replaced by an exclamation mark. Those prescriptivists who are easily irritated by the absence of an oxford comma, should
help stop this atrocity. We shouldn't let a old and prestigious language such as English decay into that state of embarrassment. What would Shakespeare or F. Scott Fitzgerald say about how teenagers are writing nowadays? Y'all.
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