Re: Acronymns (was Re: C-IPA underlying principles and methods)
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 2:15 |
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En réponse à Jake X <starvingpoet@...>:
> I think you're confusing the word acronymn with the way an acronymn.
Nope, not in this case.
> The
> word acronymn,
> to my knowledge, simply refers to the system of taking the first letter
> from
> each word in
> a multiword phrase.
> For example, 'Laughing Out Loud' becomes lol, from the first letter of
> each
> word. Those new letters,
> "lol," are an acronymn regardless of how you pronounce it.
Not so. I think you're the one who's confused here. I've just checked a bunch
of online dictionaries, and they all agree (and not only in English, the word
has an identical meaning in all languages I know). You can call an abbreviation
an acronym *only* if it is pronounced as a word (which is the main definition
found everywhere. You don't even have to take only the first letter of each
word. "radar" is an acronym too. The only condition is to be an abbreviation
pronounced like a word). If you pronounce "LOL" [lOl], as I do, then it's an
acronym. But something like BBC isn't, because each letter is pronounced
separately.
Christophe.
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