Internet speak will soon be our language

Resistance is futile. Internet-speak is going to take over your lives, writes Colm O’Regan

Some of you will escape by going off the grid to West Cork and setting up an organic honey-farm, or dying. Or both. But the rest of you who have held out and avoided social media conversations until now, are finding it hard to avoid drifting inexorably towards a screen with the familiar mid to dark-blue bar across the top.

Slowly though, you are being attracted to Facebook pages. You are being asked to Like and Share to Win A Chance Of Dinner For Two at the Kilinashandumfetterick House Hotel. Or the neighbourhood watch page has told everyone to “watch out lads deres a white van with dubln reg going around and gerry kealey says he had a lawnmower robbed”.