Life Abbreviated... :)

“Hey, gtg”; “c ya”; “ttyl”; “brb”…

Now those who are regular at using messengers to stay in touch with the loved ones might be knowing them and using them frequently while chatting…barring them…for others…let me tell you…”gtg” is “got to go”; “ttyl” is “talk to you later”; “brb” is “be right back”…

There are so many such acronyms being regularly used on internet…Bill Gates uttered once “Whenever there is a hard job to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it”…humans are lazybones indeed…ages before there used to be no way of communication…so people went to each other’s place…then came the letters…which allowed people to sit home but still be in touch…furthermore…came the telephone…easy connectivity and no troubles of paper and ink…and now in the Modern Era…we have so many options of disseminating messages, emotions, etc., by means of internet, phones and all…do you think advances in technology gave birth to all this?? Well I am of the opinion that this is all product of our laziness…

Coming back to what I actually started with…torpid functioning of Homo sapiens has lead to abridgement of even the phrases normally used…when new to the confab on the world wide web…I never did understand these short terms…had to ask always what exactly does that mean…now ttyl is not something a normal brain would be able to decode at one go I guess…but now…being almost 5 years into the world, I am quite familiar with many of them…but few yet to be deciphered …I still get to read some new acronyms altogether whenever I talk to some new person, from some new territory…

It’s amusing how people come up with them…obviously they are born all because we hate typing the words entire…or may be we laze typing…2nd is more appropriate undeniably…even now when I am writing this…I feel like ending all the “-ing” words in “-in” itself and skipping the vowels …human tendency…

Pros of the thing…easy to write…takes less time as well as less clicks…looks stylish (as told to me by a friend)…some codes can be kept well within friends even if talking in public rooms…cons of the thing…well…are few…being into habit of writing short forms, many a times while actually writing, we tend to use them…for e.g. “and” used as “n”…especially in exams…I experienced it…it does take efforts to write the whole word… also many a times it can mess up the lingo in terms of grammar…and spellings…have to run spell-check frequently…

But it’s kind of sure that neither am I, nor anyone else is going to stop using them…coz its fun…a “wassup” makes me feel more casual and closer to the responder than “what’s up”…it’s kind of an idiolect i.e. different in some respects from the others using the same language…all I can say is…seeing the progress in the genesis of newer abbreviations…we may come up with a new diction itself…

:D