Quote Originally Posted by cassiesmom View Post
The only ones I knew were "grats" -- because of college students in my family; and "BYOD". I didn't know twerking till we talked about it on facebook. My nieces use "adorbs" a lot -- why they can't just say the entire word I don't know. I guess we have to shorten everything to fit it into a 140-character tweet or onto a smartphone screen. What has happened to the English language? I don't get it.
Vanna White is still peddling vowels.

THAT give me some hope.

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I love adages, but the shortened, vowel-less words make me laugh and cringe.