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Favorite acronyms and the like?
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RE: Favorite acronyms?
October 31, 2023 at 1:43 pm
(October 31, 2023 at 1:42 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(October 31, 2023 at 1:20 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: You forgot the ML.

I don't do metric.

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RE: Favorite acronyms?
October 31, 2023 at 2:03 pm
(October 31, 2023 at 1:43 pm)Foxaèr Wrote:
(October 31, 2023 at 1:42 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: I don't do metric.

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RE: Favorite acronyms?
October 31, 2023 at 2:04 pm
(October 31, 2023 at 12:17 pm)FrustratedFool Wrote: So initialism is a sub-category of acronym.
Oh, labels.  What interesting things. They provoke such interesting discussions amongst the obsessed, lol Smile

No, both initialisms and acronyms are sub-categories of abbreviations.

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RE: Favorite acronyms?
October 31, 2023 at 2:04 pm
(October 31, 2023 at 2:03 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(October 31, 2023 at 1:43 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: My Lawn. Wink

Mylawn? That plastic film stuff?

>__>

You stated: GTFO

It could have been: GTFOML
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RE: Favorite acronyms?
October 31, 2023 at 2:11 pm
(October 31, 2023 at 2:04 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(October 31, 2023 at 12:17 pm)FrustratedFool Wrote: So initialism is a sub-category of acronym.
Oh, labels.  What interesting things. They provoke such interesting discussions amongst the obsessed, lol Smile

No, both initialisms and acronyms are sub-categories of abbreviations.

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I guess I don't know how to read dictionary entries very well.
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RE: Favorite acronyms?
October 31, 2023 at 2:55 pm (This post was last modified: October 31, 2023 at 2:57 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(October 31, 2023 at 2:11 pm)FrustratedFool Wrote:
(October 31, 2023 at 2:04 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: No, both initialisms and acronyms are sub-categories of abbreviations.

Boru

I guess I don't know how to read dictionary entries very well.

I agree, but I’m not guessing.

Quote:Some types of abbreviations are acronyms (some pronounceable, some initialisms) or grammatical contractions or .

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RE: Favorite acronyms and the like?
October 31, 2023 at 3:00 pm
Here we go with the isms again.
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RE: Favorite acronyms and the like?
October 31, 2023 at 3:08 pm
The post I was referencing was:

acronym, n.

1. A group of initial letters used as an abbreviation for a name or expression, each letter or part being pronounced separately; an initialism (such as ATM, TLS).

I misread that as saying an initialism came under the heading of an acronym.

See, first I agreed with you (why I said good catch), because you said what I had been taught about the differences between initialismand acronym. Then someone else disagreed with you and posted the OED entry above, and then I said 'so ...' and suggested that initialisms were a subcategory. Then you said I was wrong, so I agreed with you again by saying I must have read the posted OED entry wrong. Now you're saying that I was right to say I'd misread the OED, but are quoting somet other part of the full entry (I assume) than what was provided. Very confusing, lol ?

I'll go back to my original agreement with you and say you were right to delineate the technical differences.

Where's David Crystal when you need him, lol ?
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RE: Favorite acronyms and the like?
October 31, 2023 at 3:09 pm (This post was last modified: October 31, 2023 at 3:19 pm by FrustratedFool.)
(October 31, 2023 at 3:00 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: Here we go with the isms again.

Some people are obsessed with discussing terminlogical minutae and taxonomies and definitions etc. Funny world ?
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RE: Favorite acronyms?
October 31, 2023 at 3:41 pm
(October 31, 2023 at 2:04 pm)Foxaèr Wrote:
(October 31, 2023 at 2:03 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Mylawn? That plastic film stuff?

>__>

You stated: GTFO

It could have been: GTFOML

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