Homework for August 2023 - A New Language
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2023 9:19 am
A NEW LANGUAGE
(c) Shelley Hansen 2023
The Age of Great Technology! A blessing or a curse?
Designed to make things better - but at times, it seems they’re worse.
We speak a whole new language - words no longer mean the same
so now we Baby Boomers have to keep up with the game.
For RAM is not a woolly sheep, and you can’t trap a MOUSE
and WINDOWS aren’t those thing that let in light around the house.
No spiders in the world wide WEB, no teeth in MEGABYTE,
and you can’t eat your APPLE, or use IPADS for your sight.
Now books arrive on KINDLE, when it used to simply be
the sticks to start the campfire for a pannikin of tea.
Your mail comes on a TABLET, when it used to be a pill
you took for something VIRAL, that once meant that you were ill.
Vernacular is changing, as emojis fill the page.
It seems we’ve travelled backwards to the hieroglyphic age!
The only way to look at it, IMHO, I think,
is ROTFL (or it will send you to the brink!!)
(c) Shelley Hansen 2023
The Age of Great Technology! A blessing or a curse?
Designed to make things better - but at times, it seems they’re worse.
We speak a whole new language - words no longer mean the same
so now we Baby Boomers have to keep up with the game.
For RAM is not a woolly sheep, and you can’t trap a MOUSE
and WINDOWS aren’t those thing that let in light around the house.
No spiders in the world wide WEB, no teeth in MEGABYTE,
and you can’t eat your APPLE, or use IPADS for your sight.
Now books arrive on KINDLE, when it used to simply be
the sticks to start the campfire for a pannikin of tea.
Your mail comes on a TABLET, when it used to be a pill
you took for something VIRAL, that once meant that you were ill.
Vernacular is changing, as emojis fill the page.
It seems we’ve travelled backwards to the hieroglyphic age!
The only way to look at it, IMHO, I think,
is ROTFL (or it will send you to the brink!!)