Sunday, October 21, 2007

A post that is completely neces

When I hear a bunch of unneces and hid abbrevs, it def makes me want to vom.

If you understood that sentence, it's absolutely guaranteed that you must be some combination of:
a) Under the age of 25,
b) Texting so much you're under NSA surveillance,
c) On Verizon's most expensive phone plan, or
d) A person with a phobia of whole words (which, in a semi-ironic twist, isn't a word yet).

In today's youth culture, word abbreviations are as common as a sassy teenager or a drunk college student. They're everywhere you look. No longer is a d.b. a dead body, but rather an intoxicated catty coed (to put it lightly). We've become a generation of LOLs, OMGs, IDKs and BFFs (though it's a wonder there are BFFs without communication). We've gotten to the point that we don't even laugh out loud anymore. Now, we just tell people that we're supposed to be. I wish I could tell someone I'm crying on the inside or smiling like it's my job without actually doing it, but COTI and SLIMJ don't exactly have a ring to it.

Have we gotten to the point where we're really so ADD that we can't even finish words anymore? Can you imagine if Thomas Jefferson used the language of today when writing his famous letters to John Adams?

Yo JA,
What's the deal BFF? I know it's kinda unnecess, but be4 I finish the Dec of Ind 2nite, can u come by n read it 4 me. K thx bye.
TJ

Needless to say our Declaration would be a lot shorter. Maybe if our founding fathers had used abbreviations, then Jefferson could have spent more quality time with the Mrs. and Ben Franklin could have spread the syphilis epidemic.

Feel free to LOL at that sentence.