This is nothing to LOL about.

We’re not exactly ‘laughing out loud.’ The English language is getting progressively lazier, and we believe the acroynym to be the culprit. Acronyms originated out of practicality, not convenience. Imagine if every time you wanted to say Radar you had to say Radar Detection and Ranging. Exactly. But these days it seems like every little thing has its own acronym. Thank you text messaging. Thank you online chat. Because of you, honest, everyday citizens now know that BRB means ‘be right back,’ or that OMG is short for ‘oh my God.’ Outrageous, but it didn’t stop there. Numbers started being used in place of letters. Just gr8 we thought, people no longer had time 4 full words. Fortunately we have plenty of time for English, and always will. That’s why we’ll never be known as the Ox4d English Dictionary, and it’s why you’ll never find any acronyms masquerading as words in our pages.

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