I is for "Is"

Today I noticed that everyone's favourite social networking site had done a wonderful thing. For months, everyone who has a profile on Facebook has been setting their status to the tone of one single part of speech: the verb "is."

How many times have we all wanted to say something other than "S is...." but were not able to do so? We were bound by the constrictions of that tiny, two letter word. Forced to modify our thoughts so that they made perfect grammatical sense.

Of course, some people chose to defy this word, continuing their thought as if it was not there to turn their otherwise intelligent descriptor into a garbled piece of grammatical nonsense. "J is wants to go to the store."

And no doubt, you scoffed at that person's inability to conform to a predetermined descriptor of what "J is" thinking, doing, feeling, believing.

Well, today a wonderful thing happened. All those people who refused to conform to the standard status of "So and so IS" were validated. Facebook, I assume from the mounting pressure put forth by the group "Petition to Get Rid of 'is' from Facebook Status Update!" (a group boasting upwards of 200 000 members!), has deleted the verb "IS," and thus has freed the general populace of Facebook users to determine for themselves in exactly which tense they would like to describe their being.

Now, if only there was a group called, "Nobody likes anyone who speaks in the third person!"

Because, really, who likes anyone who really talks like that??? How annoying.

However, one unfortunate fact remains.

"S is having a hard time getting used to not using the word IS in her Facebook status."

Out.