I can't accept it anymore. It makes me insane when I hear "You wanna hop on COD (sounds like the fish), as opposed to the difficult phrase Call of Duty. Or, Dude, get on GRAW instead of just saying Recon, or Ghost Recon. Why do you need to save a syllable or two? I actually heard someone say O-M-G instead of Oh My God.
People, nay, fuckheads...enough is enough. Is it that hard to speak the language instead of speaking internet shorthand? What did I, or society do to deserve such complete thunderfucks of verbal booty sqirts? Honestly, I hate you if you are the guy, girl, or douchebag that does this.
Sure, It is easier to TYPE CoD/GRAW than the entire word. But speak fucking english! The fact that w00t made it into the english lexicon is disturbing, and amazing...But enough is enough. I will pray to whatever God will serve my purpose to hope you break your thumbs, get carpal tunnel, lose a few digits to leprosy, and in drastic steps, hope that you lose the power of speech, (since you already lost the power of 'thought').
USE FUCKING ENGLISH OR SHUT THE FUCK UP!
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I say call then out. Name names!! lol.
/kidding
I do it as a sort of satire really, plus if you play around with abbreviations you can come up with some funny stuff.
I agree with your rant, though this is how language works. The internet is part of our society now, whether we like it or not - and it'll only get merged even more. But you don't HAVE to conform, that's why there's still fancy British accents.
Whereas if you say GRAW, you instantly know Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. Granted, people who say H3 when referring to Halo 3 or Q4 when referring to Quake 4 in spoken word are idiots, but considering some games franchise like to have stupidly long titles, why not use an easy-to-decipher acronym?
Radio Show Host: What's your latest obsession?
Hank Moody: Just the fact that people seem to be getting dumber and dumber. You know, I mean we have all this amazing technology and yet computers have turned into basically four figure wank machines. The internet was supposed to set us free, democratize us, but all it's really given us is Howard Dean's aborted candidacy and 24 hour a day access to kiddie porn. People... they don't write anymore, they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that. You know, it just seems to me it's just a bunch of stupid people pseudo-communicating with a bunch of other stupid people at a proto-language that resembles more what cavemen used to speak than the King's English.
Generally speaking, when I speak with someone and they say 'GRAW' it turns my stomach. It could be easily said as "The new Recon" for all intents and purposes...But I do see what you are saying. I think there is a huge difference between UT 3 and COD/GRAW...The 'COD' thing is what finally flipped my wig.
Kaz-
No I never saw that show. I think I saw it in the 'On Demand' page for Showtime, but I don't get that. (Since you can get Dexter and Weeds on the net, no reason to pay for it. I'll have to look for some episodes....
/end poor counter example