Plato not Pluto.

How often do hear people confusing Plato with Pluto? A lot unless off course we don't run around the same circles. Anyway, I have taken it upon myself to clear up the mix up. Pluto is a planet and Plato is a genius, in my humble opinion. Plato stands with great philosophers like Socrates and Aristotle as one of the pioneers of the intellectual lore, particularly in the West off course. We might have lost him to politics, given the long history of participation in Athenian politics by his family.But he declined to follow suit, frowning on corruption that usually goes hand in glove with politics (Think Julius Malema and the tenderpreneurs of his generation). So Plato came to a conclusion that philosophy,not politics, could cure social ills. At an unknown date before Christ, he founded Athens the Academy, the first permanent institution alloted to philosophical research and teaching. And like me, his travels were far-flung. His literary life is inspiring to young aspiring writers like myself, meaning Plato like Pluto will live forever. And that's about the only similarities between the two. So here is a free advise to them dumb-dumbs: Pick up a book #DontConfuseShit

The Almighty English. The rise or the fall?

Between the splendid reigns of Queen Elizabeth the first and the second, the number of English speakers escalated to innumerable figures. The mother tongue speakers however,contribute a mediocre percentage. People who speak English as second or foreign language are a lot according to fundamental statistics.Now, what accounts for the lamina of these increases. Social networks. Yep, that's right. Together with the modern desire to communicate at a world level over long distances. But what's fascinating is that these so called pull factors are actually reconstructing the English language, it's usage and it's governing rules.So the million dollar question is: What's going to happen to the beloved language in the future? Most likely today's teens won't care less about grammar, I mean these kids are already substituting words with numbers e.g C U L8er.And quite frankly, they don't seem to be bothered with achieve a certain level of fluency let alone enriching their vocabulary.Only handful of them are aware that the word dude has its ancestry in German, and that dude means idiot but still they toss the word around nonchalantly. Don't even get me started with improper use of words like "Like" "Hectic" "Hardcore" . What does the future hold for the main language of books, magazines and the internet? While it adapt and survive?Will it transmute into new languages?