Comments | fingersmaloy: "He meant everything to me. But there's a new Doctor Who on so let's make this snappy."

fingersmaloy

"He meant everything to me. But there's a new Doctor Who on so let's make this snappy."

Jun 26, 2011 11:53

Hey, so I been thinkin ( Read more... )

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fingersmaloy June 26 2011, 19:32:25 UTC

Nuts, a few crucial typos I'll have to fix later.

ayappe June 27 2011, 01:55:34 UTC

I think it's funny that you talked about "HAGS" because that's what I thought of immediately once I read your first paragraph. ^^;

Anyway, so I was looking up "R.I.P." (which incidentally I do always think of as "rip") and, while "Rest In Peace" is certainly an apt expression of the acronym, it's actually short for the Latin "Requiescat in Pace," and those Romans/users of Latin phrases were all about shortening things into acronyms. INRI...AD...PS...MO...IXTHUS...well, that one's Greek, but whatever. ^^; So, y'know, maybe it's just in keeping with the style. For some reason, pretty much all these common Latin phrases get shortened, so why leave out "requiescat in pace" and make it feel bad?

dueweke June 27 2011, 02:30:08 UTC

I have always despised seeing "RIP" on anything. Especially when it comes up on facebook statuses from people, like, "My wonderful grandma died this week at age 98. I'll miss her so much. R.I.P." I'm like, really?! Rip? (I too say the word). It sounds almost disrespectful.

I feel this way about other lazy abbreviations that will inevitably end the use of proper English language, anywhere. Once in a while is ok, sending a text message, whatever. But seeing an entire conversation that is nothing but jumbles of letters just annoys me. If you're so busy you can't even send me actual words, then get back to me later.

ayappe June 27 2011, 04:51:08 UTC

My favorite thing is when people spell out abbreviations... Like "btdubs"... My brain immediately goes into this whirlwind trying to justify it and ends up just going crazy. "So...people started typing 'btw' as shorthand for 'by the way,' and then started *saying* 'btdubs' as a shortcut for speaking all five syllables of 'btw' (which, BTW, if you just said 'by the way' would have the same number of syllables), and now you're...spelling out 'btdubs'? Which was supposed to make the whole thing shorter to begin with but is ultimately longer than the original abbreviation?? ::head explodes::"

fingersmaloy June 27 2011, 07:39:57 UTC

Aside from that anecdote being head explosion-inducing, saying "dubs" instead of "double-u" is just about the most vomit-inducing thing I've heard all day.

ayappe June 27 2011, 15:20:48 UTC

I think you would love the way my former manager at JJ communicated. And by "love" I mean it might make you permanently ill. If a word could be shortened in conversation, it was. Popular choices were "totes" and "sched." He frequently ended emails with "booyah." And he's the one who introduced me to the head-explody "btdubs." ^^;

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