by Phyllis
Forgive my digression from Web Fun for a moment, but I must speak. The following is a portion of an e-mail that was forwarded to me recently. (The name has been changed.):
"As per our convo, Betsy Warner is not able to see her computer displayed thru the projector. The DVD works and everything looks like it is hooked up correctly. Can you please ask the IT folks to check it out. Keith"
No.
I am aware that "combo" is used as a shortened form of combination. And I can accept that. But give me a break with "convo" already. Do you mean to tell me "o" is now an acceptable shortening for the last three syllables of all words that end in "-tion"? Try again. Or let me make an obso about this. It would bring many complos to our language. People would find themselves needing to give an explo or even a defo of what was just said. Frankly I think it is an abomo, so please let's take this practice and give it a good defeno.
The only appropriate use of ridiculous shortenings of this type is for humor. Any of you who saw the 30 Rock episode where Josh's agent helps him with his contract know what I mean. That was hilar.
Other unacceptable shortenings:
sitch
vacay
And many others. What have I forgotten?
5 comments:
just a sec
Funny it is. I laughed and laughed. On the other hand, it is ridiculous. I could use, in this comment, the words abbrevio and situo, and even valido if I was that kind of a person. But I'm not. I'll just say that I had not known of convo and might not have known what the heck it was if your blog had not given clarifico of it. Yes, Unacceptable. See what I mean?
And I'm still working on the guy who never used "than."
I guess you're not very "urban."
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=convo
Sorry, mom: abbrevo, sito, valo, clarifo.
And please let us all run in the opposite direction from the urban dictionary.
Well it seems to me that valo could be confused with valuation, hence my valido for validation. Of course, the whole thing is stupid anyway.
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