Netlingo

   I was looking up some things in the Urban Dictionary. The XDXD thing wasn't on the list yet. I assume it is a reincarnated version of the XOXO (hug's and kisses) of an older generation used primarily on notes passed in class or frilly stationary (sometimes perfumed) to express the sender's UL4HT. Or perhaps its definition is as yet amorphous. And too, before the electronic age few expressions were acromynized or emblemized. In my enjoyment of the evolution of language, I find it's interesting to note the things that (seem to) have disappeared. What ever happened to "suck face", "swap spit", or "tongue wrestling", among others? In a world long past I would have thought those were 2G2B4G! Ah, the folly of it all.
   Intriguing to me as well in the evolution of netlingo (born of the early SMS text world) is the inevitable necessity of having to explain new terms with far greater number of characters. Isn't the search for posterity wonderful? I can see some future 60 year olds sitting in a park somewhere reminiscing, "Remember when I created the abbreviation for Rolling On the Floor Laughing My Silly Blonde Ass Off With My Feet Sticking in the Air and Shaking All Over? AITS? Ah those were the days, weren't they?"
   Back in the day most acronyms were for math notation so mathematicians didn't have to constantly write [The Big Bang Theory That Explains Everything And Describes How You Went From Twinkle In Daddy's Eye To Lord High Muckity Muck of Bojangletown]. Acronyms were used a great deal in politics, and the military. And emblems (emoticons nowadays) were often business logos. I worked for a company with "oyo" in the name, but when you do it like this (OYO) becomes "boobs".
  One thing though is the spot of vengeance time take on all of us. In 40+ years from now when for the current generation being in the "hip crowd" means the group of people waiting in line at the Orthopedic Clinic for hip replacements, having gone through the transformations from "hip" (cool) to "grup" (grownup) to "fog" (fogey), it will hit them as well. They will look around and realise they cannot understand their own children and say, "What the hell are those bratty whippersnappers TALKING about nowadays"?

~WECROR~ maybe there IS such a thing as justice for all.





UL4HT= Undying Love For Heart Throb
AITS= Ain't I The S**t
EOTS= Enough Of That S**t
WELROR= Wicked Evil Laugh Reminiscent Of Renfield