In Competition No. 2712 you were invited to come up with your own additions to the ever-lengthening list of modern maladies.
The assignment was prompted by reports in the Daily Mail and New York Times of the growing epidemic of Fear of Missing Out. Scourge of Generation Facebook, FOMO has at its roots the relentless bombardment, courtesy of social media, with evidence that your ‘friends’’ lives are so much better in every respect than your own.
The best of your contemporary maladies appear below and earn their authors £25 each. John O’Byrne grabs the bonus fiver.
Chronic Acronym Disorder (CAD), aka Initial Abominable Meaning (IAM), is a common problem among individuals, and is characterised by the consistent inability to form a word sufficient for meaningful communication/textual intercourse. The orthographic pain can be chronic and 4EVER, coz it’s usually related to the inability to tnk clearly.
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