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Thanks！ There are too many abbr. words in English! ;)
I am trying to improve my English skills, if you see a mistake please feel free to reply or /msg me a correction
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> There are too many abbr. words in English!
I'd say English Internet Slang, which is of course a quickly evolving thing, which you can't find in school books.
I was once thinking of writing a Nodelet Hack which is automatically parsing for uppercase words in a dictionary and adding a mouse over explanation to the DOM.
Like that one would only need to hover over an unknown abbreviation...
HTH! ;)
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There are too many abbr. words in English! ;)
The word for those non-words is acronym, and there *are* way too many in use. The problem started because of the need to abbreviate while "texting". We now have a few generations, starting with millennials, who unironically use acronyms as words.
Obscure acronyms are used socially to define in-group preferences, and to obfuscate out-group understanding. This provides group defining opportunities to mock whoever doesn't know the lingo. A related problem is emerging with the use of self-censoring substitutions like "the B word" which can refer to multiple taboo words, or "the K word" you never heard before and don't know what is being substituted.
English is collapsing into a multitude of bizarre venaculars. The devolution can be seen in full with the emergence of hieroglyphic "icons" in software which mean something to the programmers, but leave the users struggling to learn a new dialect of symbolic illiteracy. The same sort of thing happened to Latin after the fall of the Roman Empire, to the point that no one alive really speaks the original language, but only several different incompatible dialects. It's all downhill from here. Enjoy the ride!
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In shorter works, like posts, people don't use acronyms properly on the internet.
If I wanted to tell you about the GNU C Compiler (gcc), first I would spell out the proper name and then use parentheses to show you how I plan to refer to gcc in the future.
There is also a difference between written and spoken English and short posts, like this one, encourage the use of casual spoken English rather than the more formal written English like you see in books.
In other words, I completely agree.
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