Recently, I heard a sports-writer-turned-sports-commentator use a cliche, which one tends to do when talking on air, where the worst thing one can do is produce dead air, not dead words. But then, aware of his action, he adorned the cliche with an acronym - BAU - no doubt in the hope that this would help legitimize his "business as usual."
It occurred to me that, as people's speech becomes increasingly rote and unimaginative, we could all start communicating in acronyms. This is already happening in written English - OMG, LOL - and it's only a matter of time (OAMOT) before we stop speaking in words.
