Dictionary Downfall

Dear Merriam-Webster,

I can get on board with you adding "selfie" and "photobomb" to your pages. I can even understand putting "twerk" in the T's. And certainly "emoji" deserved a place. Those words are used on a daily basis by a majority of the people in this world.

I barely supported your adding of "LOL" and "OMG". (OK, so not really.) But I cannot and will not support your additions of "YOLO", "WTF" and "NSFW".

They're not even words for crying out loud!

Adding these so-called words to the dictionary is, in my opinion, only furthering the demise of face-to-face communication.

Of course, the people who would use YOLO, WTF or NSFW probably have never even cracked open a dictionary or at the very least used an online version. But I suppose us old folks will one day need a way to look up the latest acronym our grandchildren just texted us with.

Sincerely,
Someone concerned with the future language skills of our youth