After what felt like weeks of procrastinating, I’ve finally figured out what to write. Yes, the missing vowels. Honestly, the idea came from an article I read in Reader’s Digest on the same topic, but I’ll be saying everything entirely from my own perspective, in case any of you are getting the wrong idea that I had succumbed to plagiarism out of desperation to come up with anything…

It’s the Dawn of the Missing Vowels, where everyone’s leaving them out everywhere, from online chat among friends to billboards boasting the latest Iron Man 2 movie. Okay, maybe I was exaggerating about the billboard part, but it’s undeniable that everyone’s making it a practice to leave out those seemingly insignificant letters.

For instance, a few years back, I had been kinda addicted to a few online role-playing games, where I found myself puzzling over words exchanged from one gamer to another such as ‘ldr’, ‘ltr’, etc. (No, etc is an abbreviation). I was like, ‘what the **** (any four-letter word closing in on profanity will do) are you guys talking about?’ I mean, it’s not like someone’s out there threatening to murder any of you should you try to even think about using both vowels and consonants in every word. In case anyone doesn’t know what vowels are, who probably might have been playing hookey while others had been in school studying what they are, vowels are a speech sound, created by the relatively free passage of breath through the larynx and oral cavity, usually producing the most prominent and central sound of a syllable. Copied it out from thefreedictionary.com (It’s free!). My version of definition, which is much, much simpler and would not require words such as  larynx or oral cavity, is that vowels are a group of special letters in the alphabet soup, starting from A, E, I, O, to finally U.

Lemme give all of you a few more examples to prove my point. Wait, what’s the point again? Oh, right, the widespread phenomenon of missing vowels. Okay, how about a name? Flickr.com? Ringing any bells yet? Where’s the bloody ‘e’?! Let’s not forget KFC… wait it’s an abbreviation, so it doesn’t count, though FYI (which stands for ‘for your information’), where I come from, it stood for, uhm, something else other than Kentucky Fried Chicken that I would feel the least bit comfortable disclosing to the everyone in the Internet community. For all Flickr users out there, it’s not that I hate the site for its missing ‘e’; I hardly even know what it’s supposed to do. I’m merely stating out an example, is all.

Seriously, if this keeps up, everyone, young and old, will be talking like this: ‘Hy, wht’s p dd?’ Try and decipher what I said, or better yet, say it out loud in front of the screen, and you’ll see what I mean. 

So, vowels out, what’s left to lose? Consonants? This I really like to see…

K, by. XP