I still have the little Olympia portable manual typewriter I won in grade school for selling the most World's Finest Chocolate bars, LOL! I carted it to universities across the oceans (a lot lighter than the IBM Selectric of the day).
I remember when I couldn't figure out "LOL." It looked to me as though someone drunk was commenting, as she had seriously overused the acronym; and that was only about 14 years ago.
These days, you can find greeting cards written entirely in acronyms, and I even have a (now outdated) little handbook of common texting acronyms.
What concerns me is that I'm seeing too many kids unable to spell properly because they only know short form communication. Sure, the commercials for (i forget which) cell phone services in which even the grandmother is texting were funny, and comedians have found much fodder in texting lingo.
That the lingo has a dark side is not at all surprising, nor is it much different from the dark side of any vernacular from other generations. What is disturbing is that this lingo travels and replicates at the speed of whatever band the phone is on - 3G, 4G, whatever.
Well, texting lingo is a part of our modern life; but, the idiot texting while driving won't ever be my BFF!!
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I still have the little Olympia portable manual typewriter I won in grade school for selling the most World's Finest Chocolate bars, LOL! I carted it to universities across the oceans (a lot lighter than the IBM Selectric of the day).
I remember when I couldn't figure out "LOL." It looked to me as though someone drunk was commenting, as she had seriously overused the acronym; and that was only about 14 years ago.
These days, you can find greeting cards written entirely in acronyms, and I even have a (now outdated) little handbook of common texting acronyms.
What concerns me is that I'm seeing too many kids unable to spell properly because they only know short form communication. Sure, the commercials for (i forget which) cell phone services in which even the grandmother is texting were funny, and comedians have found much fodder in texting lingo.
That the lingo has a dark side is not at all surprising, nor is it much different from the dark side of any vernacular from other generations. What is disturbing is that this lingo travels and replicates at the speed of whatever band the phone is on - 3G, 4G, whatever.
Well, texting lingo is a part of our modern life; but, the idiot texting while driving won't ever be my BFF!!
June 4, 2009 - 8:13pmThis Comment
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