You can blame the Internet. You can blame cell phone texting. You can blame email.
Thanks a lot, king of the world
I blame James Cameron.
Once upon a time, Mr. Cameron made a little film called Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which, to my recollection, did reasonably well for its day. The marketing behind the movie conjured up a simple but interesting twist on the movie title for its teaser campaign by dropping the sub-heading completely and shortening the first word to its first letter, giving us the alliterative T2. It was a cute automobile metaphor that played off the fact that Schwarzenegger’s killing machine came off an assembly line, ready-made to maim, dismember and massacre.
It was clever… once.
Half a decade later, Roland Emmerich and company thought they could pull the same trick by continue reading…