Why use something at all if it does not make sense? Obviously acronym letters are intended to represent words, so they should replace them in use, including speech. Repeating what is already said is simply babbling. It can only either insult the listener by implying ignorance on his part or make the speaker appear inept. Once a man working in an automotive shop had the gall to say “VIN number” to me and expected to sound competent! As if it was going to be confused with wine? We have to hope anyone of such limited capacity will never pick up a loaded firearm. In a magazine article, the writer actually bothered to define ABS in the introduction but then went on to put “ABS system” IN PRINT at least three times! This is no more competent than typing “SCUBA apparatus” in a diving magazine. What is so wrong with this is that in a world where so many cannot be bothered with what anything means, these things proliferate like a bacteria colony. This constant expansion of lunacy by the ‘monkey-hear, monkey say’ principle degrades the overall intelligence of entire populations. It is as if a movie entitled ‘Invasion of the Brain Snatchers’ was happening in real life.
