Today's post is more of an extension of one I did before. The short version of 'Rest In Peace' doesn't work for me. Whenever I see R.I.P, I think of comic gravestones and a quite graphic animation of someone being ripped apart. Now, this might just be my disturbed mind (not really), but I find it much more elegant and less tack to actually say Rest In Peace. I feel that if you are going to take the time to remember someone or pay your respects, that you could at least have the decency to write out a full word. I'm assuming that the only reason R.I.P ever became the norm was because gravestones were hand-carved an expensive (don't quote me on that). It's almost like putting H.A.G.S in a yearbook. It means you don't really care.
what does H.A.G.S. mean? it really annoys me when someone mispells something or even worse, uses a homophone. for example, you said "right out the full word" instead of "write out the full word". Very annoying.
ReplyDeleteHow embarrassing, I usually never do that. H.A.G.S means 'Have a good summer'.
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