Are we slowly de-evolving? We must have reached our peak stage with our Ninety Eighty-Four-esque language with short forms and acronyms for everything. But recently I've notice more and more the use of half acronyms, which I henceforth dub hacronyms. Two examples I hear most often are, FY information and ASA possible. Language was functioning at maximum efficiency with common phrases reduced to as little as three letters. So why now is language reverting to these less efficient hacronyms?
The use of hacronyms can actually be quite funny when used properly in sitcoms, but use is real life in unjustified. And it's even worse when people can't grasp the concept of a hacronym and say the acronym and part of the phrase. I've seen the use of "FAQ questions," "FYI information," "for your FYI" and many others. In attempting to use an acronym they actually lengthened what they were trying to say and looked really dumb in the process. For your for your information, seriously? This is like accidentally writing the word "the" twice or when people following physically laughing out loud by saying "LOL."
I've decided that if this is going to be permitted by society, I will regress language even further by using half English and half Latin phrases. No longer shall I use "et cetera." I must now use "and cetera," until society can no longer tolerate the de-evolution of language and once again returns it to its maximum efficiency. If you want to help me here are some other words you can use:
Example gratia
Quod erat demonstrated
Ad infinity
Good fide (or) Bona faith
There's plenty more to use, but unless you're a lawyer, you're probably not tossing them around too often.
I wonder how this got started and who is responsible? Maybe it is a brain-washing advertising campaign by TGI Fridays?
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