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Acronyms and the Art of acrobatic titles

  Do Titles contract into Acronyms or Acronyms expand to Titles In a world driven by twiitterati lingo and WhatsApp or Telegram rat –a- tats, there is still an orthodox school of shortening lengthy expressions or titles . Acronyms. I have not done any search in the obligatory Google or even pulled out my family's three generations old  Websters. Nor can I recollect any session when my English teachers from Secondary school onwards , devoting attention or drawing our attention on Acronyms as a linguistic attribute. But, I have come to realise that your life will be as barren as a totally locked down Central station ,without these inescapable features of English language , in particular. Doing my own DIY in semantics, I presume that Acronyms are contraptions discovered to help : Ensure that the long title of practically anything, from the name of an Institution to a Weapons Programme ,to a Peace Treaty among nations , to a Scheme promoted by a Public body like Government – is...

OCWAFD

 Feels good to create my own Blogspot. The other Social Media , somehow do not impress me.What's App has become inevitable- inescapable , in fact. After your text messages and e mail, you can not ignore What's App.  But what puts me off in What's App groups is unrestrained self fulfilling opinions.People are full of themselves in no time and soon, the Group Admin loses control. It is the culmination of of verbal anarchy. Free and undiluted . No rules in the jungle. The real pain in the other end of the alimentary canal  is Knee jerk forwards which is clearly by reflex.I choose to call this as "Obsessive Compulsive What'sApp Forward Disorder( OCWAFD).  Soon, one gets the' posts fatigue' and gets weary if not contemptuous. And the longer you continue, the typical underlying behavioral traits surface and cause fissures in the so far healthy relationship.Left vs Right, Liberal vs Conservative, Minority vs Majority, North vs South, Sons of Soil vs Immigrants, GO...