I could twinge past (and scrub out of my memory) the first two or three acronym usages in the story as temporary stupid editor/author moments. But when I got to that paragraph, it was acronym overload and I came to a complete halt.
What it makes me think of is that kind of self-aware humor that's trying really hard to be cutesy, like middle-aged women talking like small children, that kind of artificiality-as-humor -- except that netspeak then tries to ladle on an additional veneer of 'cool' ... and the conflict between the two is either ironic or just a disaster.
If an author doesn't realize this, I'd expect an editor to, at the very least.
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Date: 14 Jan 2009 06:57 pm (UTC)What it makes me think of is that kind of self-aware humor that's trying really hard to be cutesy, like middle-aged women talking like small children, that kind of artificiality-as-humor -- except that netspeak then tries to ladle on an additional veneer of 'cool' ... and the conflict between the two is either ironic or just a disaster.
If an author doesn't realize this, I'd expect an editor to, at the very least.