Indymisanthrope
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I think in order to be an acronym, the initials technically need to form a new word (the "-nym").
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TrainFan73
Frothy
Me either. I looked it up and was like this has to be some dumb recent shit. Then I checked the etymology.
Yeah I googled the meanings in the meantime and you’re right. BBC is initialism but FOMO is an acronym.
TrainFan73
Frothy
I think technically, you are correct, but I have certainly seen acronym used and never encountered initialism before today.
TenderLovingKiller®
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I can’t completely communicate through Simpsons gifs but I feel like I would do better communicating via Simpsons gif than Spanish if I ever found myself stuck in a Bolivian jail.
Hemotep
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It's really unfortunate that the BBC initialism comes from two very different things.
Yes I realised that after hitting the post button.
TenderLovingKiller®
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Radar is both an acronym and a palindrome.
TrainFan73
Frothy
Well thank you sir.
Indymisanthrope
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how dare you
Yeah, I mean everybody is just going to say "acronym" and you'll know what they mean. And there are definitely gray areas, like "SOS." Is that an initialism? It doesn't really stand for anything. Is it an acronym? Well...not really. Is it a word? Mmm, no. So for the sake of simplicity we just call it an acronym and go about our days. But I respect that the prescriptivist grammarians out there are holding fast to the technical minutiae.
SOS is Save Our Souls.
Indymisanthrope
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wait what thread am i even in
TrainFan73
Frothy
Gtfo, Radar is company clerk:
Did you know Gary Burghoff is the only actor to play his character in both the movie and show?
TrainFan73
Frothy
The cafe
Indymisanthrope
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Myth. It's just the simplest Morse code pattern to remember/transmit/recognize. The first Morse distress signal was "CQD," which was abandoned for pretty self-evident reasons:
TrainFan73
Frothy
Well now I want the origin of the myth, but I’m sure it’s just some asshole made it up and everyone ran with it. (Like the chucklefucks at work who make up “policy”)
TrainFan73
Frothy
If it helps, over in the mofi thread there is a lively discussion about lube.
Indymisanthrope
Well-Known Member
It's a pretty natural assumption. Distress signals were heavily used at sea, and when you used it, you did so because you needed someone to find you and "Save...Our...Souls/Ship."
TrainFan73
Frothy
I get you… just the fact that until you pointed it out, I was with @Joe Mac
dbarila
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Maybe it's actually a lube thread where they're discussing MOFI?