PumpJack McGee wrote...
Started with the military, which is understandable- but then civilians started in on it, made worse by MSN and texting.
Eventually, the written language may be subjected to a profound shift in which everything shall be a series of acronyms; letters instead changing track and becoming symbols to represent words- like in Asian countries and Hieroglyphs.
The thesaurus will become extinct, since we shall then abandon more colourful words for the more utilitarian ones of everyday speech, and to better facilitate the transition into the new symbolic alphabet.
doubleplusgood future.