We are living in an age where just about everything has an abbreviation. With Twitter, Facebook and text messaging which limits the characters one may use in a message it seems as if a whole generation has forgotten how to write legibly. Many of these abbreviations have carried over into our speech.
Probably the abbreviation that irks me the most is the recent onset of more and more people using the term "vaca" instead of "vacation." I can understand using such abbreviations in a format like Twitter where you are limited to 140 characters or text messaging where in can be time consuming to type out extra characters, but the last I checked "vaca" is not an English word. How hard is it to put the "tion" on the end of the word. It's just one little syllable.
Another abbreviation that gets on my nerves is the way people through "OMG" around willy nilly. OMG stands for "Oh My God!" Growing up in a God-fearing household, we were not allowed to use this term unless we were actually petitioning the Almighty and when I hear this abbreviation I recognize it as someone calling the Lord's name in vain.
Don't misunderstand me, I don't mean to come across as an old fuddy duddy who is stuck in the past. Frank Herbert once said "Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens." However (as we saw in the last Presidential election) not all change is good. I am just glad that our Heavenly Father does not change. The book of James states, "Every good and perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." (James 1:17) I guess I'll quit my ranting for now and go and try to dicipher a text message I just received. I'll ttyl.
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