Nonchalant Jen requests:
Please banish “low carb.” I am sick of seeing it on every food item and restaurant menu. I am not on the Atkins diet, the Zone diet or any other miserable diet for that matter, so I don’t want to be looked at like some social pariah for eating a carrot or a piece of bread!
And are people so lazy that they cannot say “ohydrate”?
I’ll never give up my “carbs” or my “ohydrates.”
Dave Barry’s recent column on this subject was nothing short of brilliant. http://www.sacbee.com/content/lifestyle/v-print/story/8651824p-9579787c.html
Thanks for the link! Great article!
I love to hate universal truncation as well. Example: The Ottawa Senators hockey team is the Sens. I’m waiting for people to get impatient with single syllables and reducing words further to just single phonemes. I blame TV.