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Everywhere one looks, one sees Mangled word menageries. CoHo, FroYo, FacSen, more: Hacked and pasted words galore! SLAC and BRAN and LAW and HOV; HMS, and ENG, and GOV; SULA, SULSA, SALSA, SAL — What’s the purpose of it all? What could all these letters mean? Branch, Coordinate, or Green? We’ve all got, upon our backs, Acronymphomaniacs! Samson, Cardinal, Elaine — All these titles! What a pain! Who can keep them all in mind? Who can free us from this bind? Once I dreamed, when young and bold, I might learn, ere I grew old, All our tongue, in all its glory. Now it’s quite another story. I have suffered horrid harm To my English on the Farm: I’ll depart from it a freak, Speaking only Stanfordspeak. |
Stanfordspeak
Originally published in
SUL News Notes,
Vol. 5, no. 18,
May 17, 1996.
1st web edition posted
7/29/2008.
This page last updated
7/29/2008.
© 1996-2008 by Fleabonnet Press for the author.