Overcutifying

When a woman gets to be about my age there are certain things she'll gain a lot from realising. One is that things that were cute when she was a teenager, and are cute in teenage girls today, are not as cute in her any longer.

Ending a message with an expression like *huggzies* is cute when a 14 year old girl does it. Turn the numbers around, suddenly it's more annoying than cute, and brings any kind of credability in the sender tumbling down. If a 41 year old woman peppers her workrelated messages with overcutifications (it's a word in desperate need of being coined, so here you go, world! It means trying to create an impression of being younger than you actually are by doing pathetic imitations of the ones who are the age you are trying to imitate) like *giggles* and *perty* and *thinkelinkling* I will have to struggle so hard to take in what she actually has to say, regardless of the lvl of wisdome in it, that I most likely will not do it.

Yes, I am an old cranky woman, and yes of course people are allowed to write how ever they please. At least as long as THEY are willing to take the consequenses of it and do not try to make ME do that.