Isn’t it nice, sugar and spice?
It might be high time that I laid off the acronyms and technospeak. Every techgeek has the problem of recognizing acronyms everywhere in their day to day life. This past weekend I attended a Java conference that was well worth the money I didn’t pay for it (work did). Not only did it get me thinking in alot of new directions, but it tussled my intellectual ass alittle more out of stagnation. More on that later.
But, on the downside, it had the side effect of renewing my ubiquitous problem of taking any nonword I see around town and trying to place it into a techno acronym/abbreviation. The most annoying part is that its simply unneccesary, but you can’t stop it. It feels like terets, a waste of brain “cycles.” AcronymFinder has a mention of one of my favorite abbrevs.
I would point blame for the overuse of acronyms and abbreviations to either a) people that don’t know how to imaginatively use english to not create 3 word or more names for their abstractions b) the english language which has an inedaquate vocabulary to describe much of the technical world c) or branding, but the worst branding you can imagine, cos no one can remember your brand. I can’t believe that all those acronyms are necessary. If you create a repetive acronym for a new computing subject, you should immediately be sent to the gallows.
|-|4K0r speak is even worse and tends to invade in the same terets fashion. Atleast its fun. This morning I was driving behind a car that had the license plate “5EX 314″ and my brain had the audacity to initially tell me it was a vanity plate. Perhaps, the driver was the cousin of Soft Cell’s fabled Sex Dwarf. Oh sex elf, why do you endlessly taunt me? Stop driving down the street in your fancy, white stretch limo, sipping expensive champagne as you indulge in the most horrific acts of debauchery.