I sense it is time for another poem...
I woke up fine this AM and I watched my P&Q's,
TGIF PM now, because I have the blues...
Cause I realize that our language is clandestinely devolving,
Into clumps of scattered letters, and this problem sure needs solving.
So I took my latin primer and began to read some notes,
On the origins of acronyms, etc., in hopes
I'd find out why it was OK for everyone I know
To use abreviated words, e.g., IMELHO*.
And I found a strange attractor in the pages of LO list,
That seemed to suck the letters out of all the words I knowest.
And as KM's (and the OM's and KP's) were in debate
Someone else was writing entropy as E+Sin of 8.
So I analyzed this mishmash bowl of alphabetic soup,
Like ABC, DEFG, HIJKL, oops,
I've realized the secret code: If what you're writing matters,
Then put more letters in your words and less words into your letters...
-- Lon Badgett lonbadgett@aol.com*"In My Extra Lowly Humble Opinion"
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