Save the Vowels

In the midst of all the political, environmental and religious turmoil in the world, we hardly need one more cause to champion. After all, most of the bandwagons are full by now. But I’ve found one that I consider to be extremely important.

It’s called the Save the Vowels movement.

The Save the Vowels campaign fights for the oppressed vowels everywhere. Every time someone ROTFLOL, many poor, defenseless vowels are left out in the rain, forbidden to join their companions in what could conceivably be a rollicking good time. After all, the human is rolling on the floor; shouldn’t the vowels be invited along too?

Most of the vowel offenders are simply lazy; they can’t take the time to write out “be right back,” so they simply belch out a BRB. The vowel-shunning abbreviations have come to replace thoughtful responses, too. A joke that would barely get a chuckle in person gets a LOL in an instant. I just found my other sock, LOL. I just saw a brown cat, LOL. I just breathed, LOL.

Fortunately, there are several corporations, especially in the Internet sector, that are doing what they can to support Save the Vowels. Take Apple Inc. for instance, they have started a foster-word placement program for vowels. They have worked miracles for the i by helping it find a home in iPods, iMacs, iPhones, etc. I have even heard they have plans to buy a dairy and start producing iScream.

So join the fight against lazy abbreviation. Instead of LOLing your way through life, support Save the Vowels and put those vowels where they long to be: laughing out loud along with the rest of us.