Saturday, December 19, 2009

The Charlotte Police Department might have questions for Loleini Tonga. But the Grammar Police have questions for her too.



Loleini Tonga, the fiancé of Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry, had the following statement on her Myspace page.


“Mrs. C. Henry Jus put deposIt down 4 weDDing piCs... Paid 4 ouR riNgs... Bout 2 eaT wiT my maN n bay bayz.... Startin 2 geT a headache thinKing bouT dis weddin.. I need A cuP.”


I’m not going to even try to decipher what any of that means. But I have a question for anyone that is reading this. Apparently Tonga is a graduate of North Carolina A&T University with a degree in Communications (per her Myspace page). I was talking to another person that majored in Communications and they were appalled by the above wording. I know with Twitter sometimes we abbreviate because we only have 140 Characters. I’ve seen people write on Myspace before and they used complete sentences. So my question is. Keeping in mind that this is supposed to be a college educated woman. Is there anything wrong with this or is it much ado about nothing?

2 comments:

Max Reddick said...

We should be concerned. Whether on Twitter or MySpace, it should at least be coherent. And that is perhaps the most incoherent foolishness I have come across from a supposed college graduate communications major.

Citizen Ojo said...

Max Reddick - I don't know who to fault for this one. It just seemed so random. It was as if she was trying to be hip. I don't know I'm at a loss for words.