Acronymania

Acronymania reigns the senses:
Text messages, not sentences--
Abbreviated e-mails speak volumes--
Proper english writing is consumed

Acronymania floods the world around us:
Somehow it has become a symbol of success!
Shorter and shorter ways to say what you mean--
It needs to fit into the smaller and smaller screen

Acronymania reigns the senses:
Text messages, not sentences--
Abbreviated e-mails speak volumes--
Proper english writing is consumed

Acronymania causes the reader be a translator:
The meaning of the message is lost until later!
Condensed words are like eating watered-down honey--
Sometimes the acronyms become so many they're funny!

Acronymania was born when abbreviations were pushed day-and-night:
Now acronyms rule whether they're wrong or whether they're write!

--bro. tim pickl
Monday February 11, 2008 A.D.

"A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver."
                       Proverbs 25:11 (NIV)

acronym:  A word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps,
or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging

mania:  An excessively intense enthusiasm, interest, or desire; a craze: a mania for neatness.
American Heritage Dictionary

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