Language is wonderful, is it not?

The way words flow off your tongue to tantalize the senses with sensual and sensationalistic twists and twangs of regional dialects and generational slang — my, oh my, I could wax poetic about words and the accompanying feelings until my infatuation with the notion of emotional aggregates forced the listener into a state of confused euphoria.

However, what I want to focus on at this moment is the change to the words themselves, due to chatroom and texting’s steady integration into our everyday speech.

I will come right out and say the handy abbreviations and acronyms of “brb,” “lol,” “omg” and a slew of others I still do not readily comprehend are not very pretty when it comes to their insertion into a person’s speech; they sound downright abrupt and broken to my ear.

Yet, I realize the greatest beauty of language is its fluidity throughout mankind’s history.

The “youth” of today are a far cry removed in word choice from days of yore — or are they?

Language has been altering — necessarily and unnecessarily — so often generationally that many words are hardly noticed to even have broken into the dictionaries.

Good old Bill Shakespeare was a marvel when it came to creating and manipulating, but then, his work is nigh-untouchable when language complaints appear.

I see today’s changes of adding the text-speak to casual speak as something everyone needs to come to terms with — especially teachers.

I will fight until I am blue in the face about the lack of proper education being delivered to grade-school and high-school students with regard to sentence construction and understanding the differences between “your” and “you’re”; “to” and “too” and “its” and “it’s.”

But those are distinctions easy to fix, especially if teachers would become willing to put down the manuals of whatever style and let language take its natural course of changing to suit the generations taking control.

There is a common ground to be found where saying and writing these newfangled blasphemies of English — and other languages — can occur.

My suggestion would be to allow their uses in papers and speech or wherever else, so long as the words still fit the situation and are not too obscure.

I would define “too obscure” to text-speak such as “AWGTHTGTTSA” — Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Sh** Again — or abbreviations and shortenings that share the same set, and potentially context, of another situation of wordification. As infuriatingly frustrating or absolutely cute as people might find “valley speak” to be, it makes little difference now as it has rooted itself into the dialect of Generation X and beyond.

This change might anger some purists of speech — think your high-school English teacher that demanded you regard the “Dr.” title in front of his or her name, or older generations already forced to change their entire understanding of media, information, banking and whatnot due to the rapid alterations technology and the Internet have had — but these changes can no longer be stopped.

The new generations are a part of a global community whether pundits want to admit it or not. The new generation’s methods of crafting their images in real life and online are so closely tied together that denying the way in which they desire to express themselves through word choice is tantamount to trying to suppress a revolution because the leader of a country just doesn’t want to give up his or her seat of power.

I might be making a rather stretched association there, but words and how people wish to use them begin revolutions as readily as want for oil or land might.

My plea is this: Educators, bosses, parents and the like, please allow your children to use their words in whatever way they choose. Help guide them to expand the realm of their words. Influence and provide them with a range of vocabulary, but do not tell them that their words are wrong or that the changes they have made are not going to be allowed.

Words are what separates man from beast. We can speak and communicate in ways other creatures cannot. Do not needlessly battle the changes because you do not like them, no matter how awful some of them might sound coming from the user’s tongue.

Embrace the change and help usher in the next iteration of language.