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03.28
Noah Webster must have forgotten how to spell
Recently, the Oxford English Dictionary has determined grammar wasn't dense enough with words like arachibutyrophobia (fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth), phlegmatic (unenthusiastic) or floccinaucinihilipilification (the estimation of something as valueless).
Yeah, like this story that should have PR professionals, marketers and copywriters above the age of 12 incensed.
The term — short for "Oh my God" — is one of dozens of new entries in the authoritative reference book's latest online update.
Other Internet-inspired expressions given the stamp of approval include LOL, "laughing out loud"; IMHO, "in my humble opinion"; and BFF, "best friends forever."
Really?!
Here's a word I would like to educate these linguaphiles on. In fact, it's in their friggin' book. The word of day, boys and girls, is:
Acronym [ak - ruh - nim] (n.) - a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words.
MEMO to the editors of the OED: LOL, OMG, IMHO and BFF are not words. They are acronyms. In fact, they're trends. And if my children grow up using terms like, "Oh, Daddy. J.K." and "Daddy, LMAO! My ribs hurt." Then, I may have take a course of action.
Like stabbing myself in the ear.
Thank you, Mr. Text Messaging, for creating the... fatuousness, or... cretinism, or even... flapdoodle of the English language.
We, of the PR and copywriting world, salute you.
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