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Pserendipity Daniels
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11-20-2009 09:33
From: Lear Cale You're wrong.
There is one definition of "acronym" that says it must pronounceable.
There is another common definition of "acronym" that does not require this.
So, it is an acronym, according to a common definition of the term. You're wrong in saying it's wrong. You're ignorant of the common definitions and usages of this term. You're WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!
Besides, that, you're just ... wrong!
Admittedly, I'm wrong more often than you are, but I'll do the happy dance anyway.
Update your dictionary! Oh dear, weren't you around when we went through this last time?  From: Oxford English Dictionary
acronym
/akrnim/
• noun a word formed from the initial letters of other words (e.g. laser, Aids).
— ORIGIN from Greek akron ‘end, tip’ + onoma ‘name’.
It's not a question of it being pronounceable or not. It is a question of whether it forms a "word". We can argue (as Talarus and Argent and Love and so on did (mainly from stubornness) in a long and very boring thread that any collection of letters is a word, but I dispute that. And the sequence of letters that Ephraim gave was "not" a word as far as I am concerned.  But if you want to believe a definition from, say, a dictionary that believes "unfriend" is *the* word of the year, then please feel free to do so.  Pep (I'm not going to repeat myself about this, so feel free to dispute at leisure.)
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sable Valentine
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11-20-2009 09:40
/Me gives the first facepalm
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Rhonda Huntress
Kitteh Herder
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11-20-2009 09:51
word -noun; an expression or utterance
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sable Valentine
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Join date: 30 Apr 2006
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11-20-2009 09:59
From: Pserendipity Daniels It's not an acronym . . . . From: Lear Cale You're wrong.
There is one definition of "acronym" that says it must pronounceable.
There is another common definition of "acronym" that does not require this.
So, it is an acronym, according to a common definition of the term. You're wrong in saying it's wrong. You're ignorant of the common definitions and usages of this term. You're WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!
Besides, that, you're just ... wrong!
Admittedly, I'm wrong more often than you are, but I'll do the happy dance anyway.
Update your dictionary! From: Pserendipity Daniels Oh dear, weren't you around when we went through this last time? It's not a question of it being pronounceable or not. It is a question of whether it forms a "word". We can argue (as Talarus and Argent and Love and so on did (mainly from stubornness) in a long and very boring thread that any collection of letters is a word, but I dispute that. And the sequence of letters that Ephraim gave was "not" a word as far as I am concerned. But if you want to believe a definition from, say, a dictionary that believes "unfriend" is *the* word of the year, then please feel free to do so. Pep (I'm not going to repeat myself about this, so feel free to dispute at leisure.) First epic battle involving Pep. |
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Wildefire Walcott
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11-20-2009 11:08
From: Pserendipity Daniels But if you want to believe a definition from, say, a dictionary that believes "unfriend" is *the* word of the year, then please feel free to do so. Pep (I'm not going to repeat myself about this, so feel free to dispute at leisure.) IHTWBSAP |
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Maureen Boccaccio
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11-20-2009 13:16
From: Wildefire Walcott IHTWBSAP LOL, Wildefire.  |
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Riseon Kosten
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11-20-2009 13:49
IBTL
(just in case, I want to WIN)
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sable Valentine
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11-20-2009 14:20
From: Wildefire Walcott IHTWBSAP LMAO after I googled it. |
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Francesca Alva
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11-20-2009 18:01
From: sable Valentine LMAO after I googled it. LOL - I didn't know what it meant either. |