Herself:
Wore one of Bee’s old shirts over my black on black on black last
night. Got complements. Turns out that last night was out last turn
at working at the meeting. Oh, we are so
very lazy.
Reading:
The new Evanovitch. It’s getting
better. Leg still marginal, but the rest
of me is pretty good.
Balance:
A great speaker from LA last night.
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I don’t mind simple ones like “I’ll, she’d, they’d,” that
sort of thing. There are always
abbreviations in a fast paced life, but I’ve developed a dislike for some of
the more modern ones. They actually
shock me.
Like “app.” Or “crit.” Or even “RIP.”
What happened to Rest in Peace. That must have vanished with the
dinosaurs. The Modern RIP means Routing
Information Protocol. There’s lots of protocols
out there actually such as SIP: Session Initiation Protocol, RTSP: Real-time
Streaming Protocol, or even the truly obscure RARP: Reverse Address Resolution
Protocol.
For a bigger annoyance talk to me of “App.” What’s wrong with downloading an “application?” Perhaps something burped in the head of a
young person somewhere, and application morphed into App. Young folks do that. Is this implying that my generation is
getting old? I admit we turned fabulous
into Fab. Remember the Fab four. I confess to vastly over using that
abbreviation.
Now there’s a new one to irritate semi literate artists like
me. Crit. “I’m going to my crit group.” Yes that’s a sentence and begun by those in
my age group. Shame on us. If I want a critique, that’s what I will ask
for. I’ve been to more critiques than
automobile accidents, but the word seems to be RIP. Maybe I’m RIP and don’t know it.
Is there and App for that?
Oh honey, there is an app for everthing! I can even write my journal using an app! And it has voice tp text. No need to even type! Progress? Not so sure about that.
ReplyDeleteI still write out the full names of states unless (1) it's for the post office or (2) it's in a field of only two characters. I was taught not to use abbreviations in general text.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I am also a better typist than these kids, not to mention a better speller. D-I-N-O-S-A-U-R.
I agree with Harriet.
ReplyDeleteCrit? Wow! That's a new one for me. LOL! I have to keep looking stuff up because I don't know what it means.
ReplyDeleteOh you have articulated a definite PPOM (pet peeve of mine)! I have yet to recover from my experience compiling my first magazine-style biennial report for a marine research agency in the 1980s.
ReplyDeleteOne project title included a string of abbreviations. When I finally cornered the principal investigator,he said he did not know what the alphabet soup stood for. "Everyone just uses the acronyms," he said. I insisted he find out. The revised version he sent had a few real words in place of the letters. The rest of the acronyms had been created from the first letters of even more acronyms. I conceded defeat.
I've noticed the slang shortened words being used on tv shows too. The Real Housewives of where ever use them all the time....
ReplyDeleteFunny. I have to agree with you here. I get a bit overwhelmed and tired of all these abbreviations also. I also get confused. What do all these things mean????
ReplyDeleteMarriage to a senior civil servant got me bored to the back teeth with acronyms and now our blog world is invaded by them.
ReplyDeleteI think Requiem in Pace has a beautiful sound but I usually have to check the spelling.
I have to confess to using 'crit' occasionally but eschew 'laters'!
I can't decide whether the acronyms are better or worse than the word endings, as if it's too difficult to add a syllable.
ReplyDelete'Blog is from weblog, which is often a misnomer for what we are posting here.
'Rents? Isn't that what you pay landlords? I would never have used that to refer to my biological progenitors.
If the language is incomprehensible to the larger population, it is not a language. (A jargon, maybe.)
As I said, D-I-N-O-S-A-U-R.
It's like working/living in a bad government job -- all the acronyms (ACS) ;)
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