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Communicate Effectively...Please!

This post is going to be actually fairly short with respect to the length of my other posts, but I feel it necessary to at least touch on this subject and with a whopping 66 percent of my readers requesting shorter posts. This will definitely be a nice change of pace. The topic I want to touch on is modern day language. Of course, as a writer, I hold a certain respect for words that I suppose wouldn't be expected of the average run-of-the-mill person that doesn't write anything more than a grocery list. However, I have a deep-seated distaste, a rather adverse disposition with regards to the pseudo-language that people have so well adapted in communication. For instance, I see how acronyms such as L.O.L. could come in handy and I'll admit I'm one of the numerous culprits that have diffused this into text messaging, email, and many other text communication, BUT it should be left in text communication along with the S.M.H's, L.M.A.O.'s, and whatever other lazy conceptions of textual speech we've come up with over the years. There is absolutely no reason that the new generation should be verbalizing acronyms to express actions! If you Laugh Out Loud, then just fill up your diaphragm and bellow out a deep chuckle or if you decide to Shake Your Head, then just perform the action. Honestly, how ridiculous can we get?  Especially, when we speak roughly 3 to 4 times more quickly than the average person can type! So, while I'm not generally the type to rant about things, I felt it was necessary to share this exhibition of lingual decay that has penetrated our younger generations so deeply. With that, Please just verbalize your thoughts and express your emotions like a normal human being.