Well, Jack, like the song says, "Groaning up is hard to do, oooo-woooo, hard to dooo.....".

I think it would be a wonderful thing to institute an abbreviation free day, especially amongst teens and others who use verbal ellipsis as a way of beckoning for tacit comprehension. One that always gets my goat is the construction "I'm (fill in the blank)...so....", and ernding the sentence there, the intention being to force the other person to accept without argument one's tacit position. Another is the "So...yeah!" construct which is a sort odf cheery meaningless interjected into conversations to imply "I'm too scatter brained to think of anything tosay at this point but I'm supposed to talk anyway so I'll use this." "Whatever!" and "He/she is soooo not (adjective of choice)" are other irritating shorthands current in the times.

An abbreviation free day would have to be timed to coincide with a national holiday. Otherwise government offices would grind to a halt and DoD (Department of Defense) projects would be paralyzed and unable to communicate. The costs would be astronomical and thousand of middle-level managers would be SOL!!

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