05-20-2020, 08:43 PM
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Zum Henker Defätist!!
Join Date: Jan 2011
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Originally Posted by Frownland
Well how about that.
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For the complete quote. The bottom is just cause so many idiots (you) don't know what an acronym is that the definition is becoming corrupted.
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: a word (such as NATO, radar, or laser) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term
also : an abbreviation (such as FBI) formed from initial letters : INITIALISM
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Both acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations, but there is a key difference between the two, at least at present. Due to rampant misuse of the term “acronym” some dictionaries are now starting to add an extra definition to it, allowing acronyms to expand their scope to include initialisms. So as the English language evolves, this additional definition of acronym may stick and become widely accepted. But at present, it’s generally still good form to distinguish between the two.
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The Difference Between an Acronym and an Initialism
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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