Sunday, February 17, 2013
An Absurd Use of Acronyms
That made me lol.
Now I am lmao. . .no, lmfao.
O.M.G, I am literally roflmao.
Wait, roflmfao. . . sry i 4got the “f”.
Using acronyms used to be about efficiency, but there is a time and a place for their presence. For example, if you are running late, texting “be there a.s.a.p” is one thing. This makes sense, but when did acronyms totally get out of hand?
How many words can you abbreviate before the time it takes to develop a shorthand version of the sentence surpasses the amount of time it would have taken to write the words out?
Honestly, trying to decode text messages and Facebook posts is comical. Sometimes it is the content that is funny, such as a post I recently read, “going to go H.A.M. after I eat this Arby’s sandwich”, but the humor is really in the illustration of the apathetic nature of our generation.
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This is so true. Trying to decode acronyms on facebook or other media sites is turning into some sort of game. I've actually raced my friends to see if they can figure out what a new acronym means. It took us about 10 minutes to figure out what Y.O.L.O. meant.
ReplyDeleteThis blog is really funny! I can't wait to see how it turns out, especially because there is so much wrong with our generation. Seeing it from someone who is growing up in this generation's point of view is going to be (and already is) interesting.
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