The word

In the next 4 days I will be writing an essay: 'The phrase "the text and the world"...immediately presents a questionable distinction - discuss'. Bennett & Royle say:
* Texts make up our world
* Everything human that happens in the world is mediated in language
* There is nothing outside the text - no access to 'the world' except through language

And I say: Our world is 'created' in text/language/word.

So, this being the case we need to really value what we say - we ARE our word. But also, we need to value our language and how we use it. The other day I came across a chat forum that was obviously a 'london geeza awight innit' kind of website, but between this, texting the written language abbreviated and using symbols it seemed like another language that these kids were talking in. I know that words always evolve with time, but, I do think we need to use words properly and carefully.
Same goes for grammar and punctuation. Why do some people write without using capital letters or proper punctuation? Writing like this is like talking with no expression and looks like the writer is ignorant. More importantly, when there is not proper punctuation the writing is MUCH more easily miscommunicated.

If all we have is language, I believe we need to be really careful about how we use it. What we say - creates who we are for others. Writing is our only way of expressing ourselves non verbally when we are not in front of each other, so it is damn important if you want to be understood to do it proper, innit! hehe.