{"id":888,"date":"2021-07-23T10:19:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T10:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/?p=888"},"modified":"2021-07-23T11:02:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T11:02:03","slug":"shortened-up-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/shortened-up-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortened up Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sayanee Mukherjee
Handique Girls College, Guwahati, Assam<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A cold morning with rains dripping and the birds chirping sweetly, what a beautiful start to the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My son and daughter were playing, so I decided to get a coffee and start my day. I switched on the portable music player and hoped to hear some melodies when suddenly I heard a blast of words. I heard my son, who is in 8th standard, teaching my daughter English alphabets and words. He said \u201cA for Apple but pronounced it as Apl,\u201d and then he went on for B, C, D, and all. I rushed towards him and scolded him for teaching wrong, but he was innocent. He said to me, \u201cMom, my teacher said nowadays nobody uses long forms so we can write our answers in short forms, so from childhood if she learns short forms, then it will be easy for her in future.\u201d I was shocked; I asked him to show me his copy. All written in a short form, \u201cGreat\u201d transformed to\u201dGR8\u201d, \u201cLearn to LRN\u201d barely a word was in its complete form. I asked him to rewrite everything in long form. The full answer, which was supposed to be completed in two and a half pages, was completed just in a single page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was shocked; though I didn\u2019t keep a regular check on my son\u2019s school works, his teachers said he was doing well. Suppose this was the condition; I am afraid that he is not in the right school. I immediately called the school officials and enquired about the teacher. I was not surprised to know that she is a substitute for some time and is very young. She is completing her master\u2019s along with the teaching job. I understood that as she is also studying, she needs to complete classes soon, and hence she is telling everyone to use short forms. I requested the school officials to take proper action, which will create a major impact on the future generation. The school officials even promised to take care of the matter.  I grabbed my coffee cup and pondered that, strangely, what the teacher was teaching in the school will become the habit of everyone tomorrow. The world is changing very fast, and one generation is ending; the millennials and Gen Z are snowballing. Even in our daily life, the number of calls we make reduced significantly, we sometimes make a phone call to our old elders or for some busy office work and what more surprising is these changes are not because of high recharge rates of mobile networks. The reason behind this behaviour is unique, essentially, we can categorize it into two types. Firstly, our beloved habit of laziness, and the second one is our fake standards, as calling is referred to as backdated, and chatting has become the age trend. People prefer texting or sometimes sending voice messages over the phone calls. Texting is no doubt fast and efficient, but it misses the personal touch of a phone call. Middle-aged people are succumbing to this world of texting. While writing, people don\u2019t have time to read paras and paras, so using short forms. Though it sometimes may feel like using abbreviations are fancy, but everything has a proper age. To begin with, if teenagers or kids started speaking and writing everything in short forms, it will create a massive massacre in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When using short forms, people aged 30 and above are aware of the actual words. However, if the younger generation starts using the short forms now, they will soon forget the lengthy forms and even teach someone short forms only. To that particular generation to whom they will introduce will never know the long forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abbreviations are helpful when the work needs to be completed in a brief period. For example, while texting people, we can use short forms if we are in a hurry. But nowadays using short forms has turned out to be the new fashion. For example, people for birthday wishes write \u2018HBD\u2019 (Happy Birthday), \u2018GWS\u2019 for \u2018Get well soon and the most famous one is ASAP. A long letter can be written but at last, writing ASAP is compulsory, that time writing \u2018As soon as possible\u2019 in long-form becomes tiresome for some people, the full form becomes much more prominent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In today\u2019s world, the titles of the films also changed, like \u2018Kabhi Kushi Kabhi Gum\u2019 turned out to be \u2018K3G\u2019. Some names, after being shortened, are hard to recognize, like \u2018SKTKS\u2019 (Sonu Ke Titu ki Sweety). If you do not know the actual name of the film, you have to search the short form and then understand it. Some short forms have gained so much popularity that people have already forgotten their full forms like \u2018Internet\u2019, \u2018Yahoo\u2019, \u2018Virus\u2019 that affects \u2018Computers\u2019 and much more. Some are also shocked to know that even words like \u2018Police\u2019, \u2018PIN\u2019, \u2018Smart\u2019 are acronyms; people believe that these words are full forms as they are used, they never knew that these were abbreviated. Similarly, if the teenagers do not know the new words which are getting abbreviated, the generation after them will never know about the existence of the full form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Shorts forms have reached the heights of infinity that even the calling style of names also changed \u2018Siddhartha\u2019 to \u2018Sid\u2019, \u2018Aditya\u2019 to \u2018Adi\u2019, \u2018Amitabh\u2019 to \u2018Amit\u2019, and the list goes on. The names have changed so much that it is hard to find whether they are a boy or a girl. If the trend continues with this super velocity like travelling, people will soon start conversing verbally using short forms. Doctors will begin prescribing medicines written in short forms, the food on the menu card will be written in short form, addresses will be shortened whatnot. If this situation occurs, then definitely there will be utter confusion among every human being. Using short forms may be taken lightly now, but the future results may be brain-wrenching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Short-form is not bad, but people must never forget that it should be used only when necessary, overusing for fun or just for the sake of trends. It will be converted into a habit causing severe issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we start using short forms in daily life, then definitely in the near future, our \u2018Brain\u2019 will get shortened up and become \u2018BRN\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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