My latest song is about the ever present use of acronyms in our never ending search of ways to communicate with as little speaking, typing, mousing, tapping, clicking and swiping as possible. The meanings of the acronyms are in the video and at the bottom of the post.
Acronymphomania
Lyrics and Music by Timothy Price
I’m without
the gift of tongues
Speak in letters
One by one
Nouns and verbs
Cloistered like nuns
Instead of words
Acronymphomania
AAMOF WYSIWYG
TOPCA in TAR
JBOD ISAR
Communication’s FUBAR
Archnymphomaniacs
HAVE NO VERBS
USE NO phrases
Archnymphomaniacs
Puzzled looks
Empty gazes
Monosyllabic
KISS KWIM BLOB
IOW
Like a SLOB
AYSOS MIA?
OMI BAD BUN
SOTD BIA ISO TIA
Achronymphomania
FWIW IMHO
LOOK OUT FOR THE WORS
Communication’s
Syllabic VERSE
Archnymphomaniacs
HAVE NO VERBS
USE NO phrases
Archnymphomaniacs
Puzzled looks
Empty gazes
AAMOF WYSIWYG
TOPCA in TAR
JBOD ISAR
Communication’s FUBAR
Since many of the meanings of the acronyms go by very quickly in the video, below are the lyrics with the meanings of each acronym:
Acronymphomania
Lyrics and Music by Timothy Price
I’m without
the gift of tongues
Speak in letters
One by one
Nouns and verbs
Cloistered like nuns
Instead of words
Acronymphomania
AAMOF WYSIWYG (As A Matter Of Fact What You See Is What You Get)
TOPCA (Till Our Paths Cross Again) in TAR (The Amazing Race)
JBOD ISAR (Just a bunch of disks Information Storage And Retrieval)
Communication’s FUBAR
Archnymphomaniacs
HAVE NO VERBS (Haptic Audio Visual Environments Natural Orbital Ventricular Endocardial Right Bifocal Stimulation)
USE NO (User Support Environment Neurotic Obsession) phrases
Archnymphomaniacs
Puzzled looks
Empty gazes
Monosyllabic
KISS KWIM BLOB (Keep It Simple Stupid. Know What I Mean? Binary Large Object!)
IOW (in other words)
Like a SLOB (Super Lazy Organic Blogger)
AYSOS MIA? (Are You Stupid Or Something? Missing In Action!)
OMI BAD BUN (Oocyte Maturation Inhibitor Bipolar Affective Disorder Bike User Network)
SOTD BIA ISO TIA (Speak Of The Devil Ball Image Analyzer In Support Of That Is All)
Achronymphomania
FWIW IMHO (For What It’s Worth In My Humble Opinion)
LOOK OUT FOR THE WORS (Lazy Object-Oriented Kernel Outline Flippin’ Over Rated Technology and Home Economics Weighted Operative Risk Scale)
Communication’s
Syllabic VERSE (Verbal Expressions Rejecting Society’s Expectations)
Archnymphomaniacs
HAVE NO VERBS (Haptic Audio Visual Environments Natural Orbital Ventricular Endocardial Right Bifocal Stimulation)
USE NO (User Support Environment Neurotic Obsession) phrases
Archnymphomaniacs
Puzzled looks
Empty gazes
AAMOF WYSIWYG (As A Matter Of Fact What You See Is What You Get)
TOPCA (Till Our Paths Cross Again) in TAR (The Amazing Race)
JBOD ISAR (Just a bunch of disks Information Storage And Retrieval)
Communication’s FUBAR
Off Center & Not Even 
Reminds me a bit of Devo.
Excellent.
Thanks, Rabirius. I really appreciate that. I’m a Devo fan.
WTG Tim. I like yer’ Bass line.
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Thanks Ron. The bass line came as a part of a free e-bass pack I got from a promo on e-instruments.com. The promo was in the last PreSonus newsletter. It worked well for the song.
Well done, another masterpiece.
Hahahaha! Thanks, Joel.
Listening now, Tim. You are very creative, and talented!
Thanks, Lavinia. Creativity takes a bit of work, but I can agree that I’m creative. Talented? I don’t know if I’d consider myself very talented. It’s more like I’m very determined. I go through a lot of pain, and a whole lotta work to give the appearance of being talented.
I still think you are talented. 🙂
Thanks.
Hi, Tim, brilliant!
Thanks, Inchcock.
Made me think of Frank Zappa too… You keep surprising me in a positive way, Tim! I’m always enjoying your musical adventures.
Thanks, Herman. I think someone else had said one of my songs was reminiscent of Frank Zappa. I like Zappa, but haven’t listened much of his music in a long while.
This is terrific, Tim! It’s timely too. People who apparently take great pride in their knowledge of grammar (which is actually something that is so very subjective), are always complaining to me when they encounter a mistake on a billboard, or wherever they might find one. I guess they think that since I’m an editor, that kind of thing must really get under my skin too. Truth is, it bothers them a lot more than it bothers me. Anyhow, these grammar police usually go on to use several acronyms, the meaning of which I have no way of knowing. I hate acronyms. They are the poorest form of communication. We’re drowning in alphabet soup! Rock on, my friend. Happy Caturday and happy November.
Hi Teagan. Grammar Nazi’s can be especially obnoxious. Language changes all the time and when it stops changing, the language dies.
Wow, you put a lot into this one, love the song and music, very creative Tim!
Thanks, Tiffany. It was fun to do.
👏👏👏Excellent! Acronymphomania; what a long word for people who don’t use words. I’m old fashioned. I like words. Then again I opened with emoji…. perhaps those who use emoji are Emojiphomaniacs.
Love your music productions, Tim. Thank you!
Thanks, Resa. Acronyms have their place, as do emojis. Both can be perfect for what one wants to communicate. But then again sometimes they become overwhelming, and communication is lost in the tangle of letters and symbols.
Speaking of tangle, Holly claimed the Tangle-Heart Tree. I told her how you said it reminded you of her.
YAY!!!!
I’m just waiting to hear back from her about how we can use it in our PBH stories! I’m so excited!
I did more photos of the Tangle-Heart Tree framing the moon tonight. Your tree has almost turned all brown. I’ll see what it looks like in the morning, and do more photos of it.
😀 I like it, I have to look up some acronyms.
I agree with Resa too, emoji is taking over too 👍🏻🧝♀️ perhaps we’ll be back to Egyptian hieroglyphs.
One friend emailed me “OMG, LMFAO!” after listening to the song. He’s a great jazz guitarist and makes fun of many of my parodies as “Bloody awful”, but funny. He continued in his response to Acronymphomania: “BTW, IRL FUBAR = Fabulously Utilized Bloody Awful Recording. TTFN, TTYL ETC”
Did you know FUBAR? I assumed it was commonly known, so I didn’t define it. But it turns out I was wrong. I’ve had some really funny responses when I told people what it means.
Emojis are another way of communicating these days. Apparently how you use emojis in texts and emails can be used against in a court of law on this side of the pond.
Yes f’d up beyond all recognition hehe, oh my I didn’t know that about emojis 🤔 🤭😁
Seen it out. Excellent way to communicate actually. Sure you know why (SYKW)
There is so many arconymphomaniacs in the IT and in government it’s down right nasty. Funny thing is when I posted that video, the only acronym I didn’t define is FUBAR. I thought everyone knew what it means. Not the case at all. Several people asked me what it meant. One person at the office told me her dad used it all the time, but she didn’t know what FUBAR meant. When I told her what it meant she was really shocked. She said she had never heard her dad cuss, ever, but she learned he does.
Thank you for the laugh, Tim. I’ve felt under the weather today, and it was a bright spot in an otherwise yucky day.
I agree with your assessment of Grammar Nazis as being obnoxious. Some people seem to get off on calling out others’ mistakes…I guess it makes them feel superior.
And I didn’t know what FUBAR stood for either.
Sorry to hear you are not feeling well. I’m happy you got a laugh. good old FUBAR and SNAFU people use them all the time and don’t know what they mean.
Very clever! My go-to acronyms are PITA and DBAD. I first saw DBAD used in a blog post by a literary magazine editor informing potential submitters not to BAD when their story is rejected, if they expect to ever be published.
There are a lot of people who are pains in the ass and even more dicks out there these days. I’m a DBAd (database administrator). I probably be a dick more that I should. Thanks, Liz.
You’re welcome, Tim. 🙂