by Nasoosie » Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:36 am
As most of you who have known me for a while already know, I am the queen of not knowing abbreviations, including capitalized ones standing for government things and more-----and not only do I not understand them, I have absolutely NO intention of ever trying to know what they mean or use them! I make a couple of exceptions in this group, such as TT and GTG (travel trailer and get-together) as they have become sort of like words unto themselves. I suupose for those of you who text, those other abbreviations are also like words to you, but, to me, they are just Greek and shall remain just that. To call everyone 'Dear' this or that just makes me grind my teeth! Dear son, dear daughter, dear husband, dear anything? ACK! Why not just my son, or my daughter? And, believe me, I realize that I am the one out of order here, as the way of the future is to murder the written English language. It is part of the culture now, albeit, one part I refuse to participate in. So this is not a criticism of anyone but me----a stubborn old hag who refuses to bow to the new 'text' language! I have given up, usually, asking what something means in a conversation in the chatroom, as I am supposed to be able to deduce what the letters mean by how they are being used. As I usually cannot deduce, nor do I even want to scroll back into the conversation to try to figure it out, I just shut my mouth now so as not to aggravate those who are perfectly aware of what is being discussed, and to save me from being made to feel like an ignorant relic! So, if you think I am not understanding something being discussed, you are probably right on!
Life is about learning to dance in the rainHappy travels!
