Acronym Craze

All I can say is WTF. This world has been more obsessed with acronyms more than me and bowling. It probably all started from instant messaging services like AIM, ICQ, or MSN. The infamous "lol" and "wtf" started it all. The "lol" led to "lmao", which led to "lmfao", which led to "LMAOROFL", and so on. Because "haheha" wasn't good enough, right? Now "lol" is just as meaningless as "oh".

Twitter and text messaging certainly did not help with decreasing the popularity of acronyms. #SMH (Shaking my head). With the character limit, people felt the need to make up acronyms. The popular one this week is #SXSW, which stands for South by Southwest.

Then, you have sports using acronyms for team/player names, positions, and stats. You have CP3, SF, RPI, PER, and TOP48M. And that's only some for basketball.

From my experience of the defense industry (Which is vast), acronyms are even more popular than in the general public. I'm pretty sure it would be hard, nearly impossible, to say anything related to work without saying a single acronym. The first few months were spent learning them and writing the ones I didn't know, only to look it out after. The experienced employees probably shoot out an average of 4 acronyms per sentence. Just imagine being a new employee going into a meeting! And some acronyms are used so often/old that most people don't even know what it means anymore! It's the truth, I'm not lying! But to be honest, from the acronyms I've heard at work, the engineers have done a outrageously good job with making them sound awesome.

Guess I'll BBL, probably tmr, to write another post. BTW, this may be the most acronyms I'll ever use in a post. OMG LOL! It's getting even tough being dyslexic in this cruel world!