*May 13
My mistake.

Aren't abbreviations, much like slang and jargon, frequently an in group identity device as much as if not more than an easer of communication?

BTW, neologisms abound. New words are being created faster than previously. Usage shares are actually larger for word use "winners" than at any point in the last 200 years and the life span of words seems to be shrinking. I read a paper maybe 6 months ago analyzing the entire Google Books archive as a time specified data set.

Alrighty then...discussion on that topic is now over.

Here is our next topic:
Relativity or Quantum Mechanics? How do you view the world and why?

Discussion on this topic will end at May 14, 10:00 PM (Atom Foltz Time).

Particles are: 1.The left-handed quark doublet, containing the left-handed up quark and left-handed down quark; 2.The anti-right-handed-up quark; 3.The anti-right-handed-down quark [ Not "hand-me-down" as, big sister's clothes ]; 4.The left-handed lepton doublet, containing the left-handed electron and left-handed neutrino; 5.The anti-right-handed electron (a.k.a the right-handed positron); 6.The anti-right-handed neutrino; and, Last in the List, 7.The Standard Model Higgs
Nota bene! The strong force, weak force, and hypercharge.
Upon electroweak symmetry breaking, the weak one is Mariano Rivera's new bionic arm. (Apologies to "Quantum Diaries" from which the List was lifted but not sifted.

On the 7 particle list, above, there are clearly descibed, observed (or observed by effect[s]) subatomic particles.
Did the observation of same, and-or others of like, or nearly unlike, "nature" [ that catchall word ], with unlike or like Grace, Spin, Hypercharge etc., etc., and (perhaps) inexplicable or blooming obvious description(s) INFLUENCE THE ACTION/Reaction/Motion/Stability of such particles? I take it this is a cardinal part of the Theory of QUANTUM Mechanics.

I guess we can just let this thread die then...

No! It must not die!

Fine.
Let it be known that 'topic of the day' will now become 'topic of the week.' Each old discussion shall be ended on a Wednesday, while the new discussions shall start sometime during the preceding Tuesday.

This week's topic should be something interesting...something about Rock & Roll...

What is your opinion of modern rock? Truly that which evolved from the classic pieces which defined the music industry of the sixties should earn some level of recognition for strong foundational principles. But has more modern music strayed too far to be considered part of our beloved Rock & Roll era?

I have heard the Jersey sound, the New Haven sound, the New York sound & it is so much ear-splitting noise. 10 (ten %) percent of the general populace desire only so-called "Classical" music and of those a few percentum like Opera. Pop is so much muzak - "Elevator Music.". Sometimes "Bad Music" (like most American automobile advertising music) requires a decent song or tune to "blow out your ears" and allow one to work or do something undisturbed.
- For R&R and its Heavy Metal adjunct: If you must play a percussion instrument, there's the piano. And it does have "Soft Pedal".. Give me a classical piece for harpsichord or fortepiano anytime and TURN DOWN YOUR iPhone on Public Transit, puhleeeeeeeeze

I must be in the 10 (ten %) then. :)

I have a response to your first post, and I do not care that the day for that discussion has passed.

You act under the assumption that there exists one solid "English language" that has never been deviated from. This is a construct. Words are constantly created (most often nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, very rarely prepositions or pronouns or anything else) and many fall into and out of fashion as times progress. The meaning of words changes all of the time as well. The word "egregious" used to mean extremely good, and now it means extremely bad.

My point is that these abbreviations that have become new words aren't horrible, and they CERTAINLY aren't unnatural. If you have a problem with new words, then don't use them. Nobody's "degrading" language by using them.

http://physics.bu.edu/~amp17/webpage_files/MyPapers/WordGrowthDynamics.pdf