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Lenny wrote:Any Idea on...
CATFU ? "Completly And Totally Fucked Up"
COTDA ? "Case Of The Dumb Asses" As in, I caught a case of the dumbasses.
KITD FOHS ? "Kept In The Dark and Fed On Horse Shit"
Lenny wrote:You are most wise, Darth Grifter.
I take it JAWA is self explanatory. Lenny
michelle wrote:Acronyms don't have to be pronounceable words, no.
LowKey wrote:michelle wrote:Acronyms don't have to be pronounceable words, no.
If they aren't pronounceable words, then technicaly speaking they aren't acronyms...they're initialisims, just to pick nits. Not much of a difference admittedly, but I felt persnickity today![]()
"While the word abbreviation refers to any shortened form of a word or a phrase, some have used initialism or alphabetism to refer to an abbreviation formed simply from a string of initials. In 1943, Bell Laboratories coined the term acronym as the name for a word (such as SONAR) created from the first letters of each word in a series of words (such as SOund Navigation And Ranging).[1] The terms initialism and alphabetism are neither widely used nor widely known. The term acronym is widely used to describe any abbreviation formed from initial letters.[2]
Most dictionaries define acronym to mean "a word" in its original sense,[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] while some include a secondary indication of usage, attributing to acronym the same meaning as that of initialism.[11][12][13] According to the primary definition found in most dictionaries, examples of acronyms would include NATO (pronounced /ˈneɪtoʊ/), scuba (/ˈskuːbə/, self-contained underwater breathing apparatus), and radar (/ˈreɪdɑr/, radio detection and ranging), while examples of simple abbreviations (initialisms) would include FBI (/ˌɛfˌbiːˈaɪ/) and HTML (/ˌeɪtʃˌtiːˌɛmˈɛl/).[7][12][14]


Lenny wrote:LowKey wrote:michelle wrote:Acronyms don't have to be pronounceable words, no.
"While the word abbreviation.. ....while some include a secondary indication of usage, attributing to acronym the same meaning as that of initialism.[11][12][13] According to the primary definition found in most dictionaries, examples of acronyms would include NATO (pronounced /ˈneɪtoʊ/), scuba (/ˈskuːbə/, self-contained underwater breathing apparatus), and radar (/ˈreɪdɑr/, radio detection and ranging), while examples of simple abbreviations (initialisms) would include FBI (/ˌɛfˌbiːˈaɪ/) and HTML (/ˌeɪtʃˌtiːˌɛmˈɛl/).[7][12][14]
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mega-hertz wrote:5 pages and no one's posted M.C.L.M.M.
then again, ZS doesn't have as many large egos, like some of the other gun/LEO/merc./mil. forums do.


Stab74 wrote:You can't drop the ball if you never picked it up in the first place.
Did I just blow your mind?
Stab74 wrote:You can't drop the ball if you never picked it up in the first place.
Did I just blow your mind?


Vicarious_Lee wrote:We'll get by.
Stumpgrinder wrote:I have no idea what BOAT stands for. I'm guessing its a pocket sized kit of some sort. Oh and my personal fav. as a basement-virgin-wow-head.
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