You know when you’re on IM, and there’s always that one friend that constantly insists on abbreviating every single word till an inch of its life. Yeah, that really bugs me.
Why do people do it? How did it come about? Why, why, why? For me I actually have to think about writing abbreviations. It’s just simply quicker and more understandable to use full language. That’s why we have it. Why can’t some people spare just that hundredth of a second saved? Also, the receiver of such things has to take that fraction of a second saved and interpret the message. So in the end it all boils down to a war of time. Who can save time and waste the others?
A traditional war as we know it involves “Saving lives is worth less than wasting the enemy’s lives”. Saving lives is what we like to comfort ourselves with, to convince ourselves that the ‘good’ side is always trying to do good. Conservation of life is crucial, apparently. But if we want to save lives then why are we in a war in the first place? I mean, really. So it doesn’t really matter how many lives we are saving, we’re just trying to waste the opposition’s.
Exactly like ‘l33t’ speak. It actually takes up a bit of time to think of those little shortcuts and diversions. But we’re just trying to slow down the other. I don’t really like being slowed down if I’m honest with you.
Do you know what really ticks me off? The art of welding ‘l33t’ words together. This comes into the territory of the ‘LOLROFLMAO!’ [Laughing out loud rolling on the floor laughing my ass off], the ‘WTFOMG!’ [What the f-, oh my God!] and the ‘FTWLOLN00B’ [For the win, laughing out loud, newbie]. I mean, to even come up with these is a crime, but to say these abbreviations out loud?
Forget it.
Thing One
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