ac·ro·nym
/ˈakrəˌnim/
Noun
A word formed from the initial letters of other words (e.g., radar, laser). ***Totally have to admit I did not know radar and laser are acronyms!!
I will never admit that I am getting old, or that I am
anything resembling my own mother, but there is probably some truth to both. I
was sitting next to some teenage, CW watching little…. Anyway, she was texting
a hundred miles an hour and I noticed that it was all acronyms, no actual
words. It was unbelievable, but she
literally had a half an hour worth of conversation with only acronyms. She only
looked up occasionally to shoot me an angry glare. I was completely fascinated regardless, trying
to guess what they all could mean. I couldn’t read every one without looking
like a creepy, stalker old lady, but I was mesmerized.
I got home an hour later, busted open my laptop and quickly
googled “stupid text acronyms”. WTF!!!
There was a full page of at least two hundred ridiculous acronyms. At first I
was thinking how much we have evolved that our teenagers now actually have
their own language. But then I realized, it is exactly the opposite. We are
going backwards. I think during the time of cavemen (if the horrible movies I
have seen are correct) they just grunted to communicate. At the rate we are
going, it won’t be long before we are grunting. Because honestly, how the fuck
do you pronounce UKTR?? Defined as: You
know that’s right. Which by the way, also proves how dumb we are becoming,
since it should be YKTR.
We as a society, are either so lazy or in such a hurry that
we are always searching for shortcuts in every facet of our lives and that has
now bled over into our children’s lives. They can no longer even speak in complete
sentences. Just the other day my eight year old daughter said “what ev” to me. “What
ev?” She couldn’t even put the “er” on
there? Really?
I guess I am a little more harsh because I am an “anti-acronym”
person. I think the medical community is the worst culprit and have another
blog devoted just to the topic of over labeling kids and over using
acronyms. (A Nation of AOL: Acronyms and
Over-Labeling) Even still, you have to
admit, it is getting a little annoying. I know I am not as cool as I once was,
at least not to a teenager. In my age group, however, I am a God.
Anyway, maybe it is just the cool thing to do or maybe it
saves time. Either way, just spell it
out you lazy asshole.
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