Inventing Acronyms

[BJCooperIT]

OK - it is Friday and I have simply lost my mind. Two contractors who sit nearby were discussing JAVA classes when one mentioned "all that stuff". I could not resist and asked if "stuff" was a technical term. One replied, English being her 2nd language, that she uses the word "stuff" often. I felt this needed some justification so:

Sundry
Things
Used
Fairly
Frequently

Surely this group can come up with more acronyms to commonly used words...

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[SamBones]

For the programmers in the audience...

Crippled
Obsolete
Boring
Old
Language

 

[TheRambler]

It seems this kind of acronym is called apronym.

While many acronyms are just bunches of letters determined by the initials of the phrases they represent, ..., apronyms have a meaning even if you don't know what the letters stand for.

Some borrowed examples:
[tt]
Blatantly
Overemphasise
Attributes &
Show-off
Talents

Search
Everywhere
Eying
Keenly

This
Is
Really
Exhausting![/tt]

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

A ny
P hrase
R epresenting
O rdinarily
N ameless,
Y awn-making
M eanings

C itizens
L earning
A acceptable
S ocial
S tanding

 

[SamBones]

I always heard that these were called Retronyms. Since it was a word first and then acronymicised retroactively. Acronymated?!? Acronymized?!? Acronymerized?!? Acronymizationizelated?!? (help me out people!)

 

[PaulTEG]

Take 2 deep breaths, and back a ways from the keyboard ... slowly, sorry is this 555-9768-????

Sam, you should be able to run for cover from that ... ... ...

Spend an hour a week on CPAN, helps cure all known programming ailments ;-)

 

[tsdragon]

North
American
Sport
Concerning
All
Rednecks

(and I'm a fan)

Always
Into
The
Computer
Humor

(ditto)


Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[CajunCenturion]

These aren't retronyms, they are backronyms.

Retronyms are phrases used to distinguish older things from newer developments, especially when the newer item is assumed without the clarification. A "black and white television" is a retronym, as is an "analog watch".

Backronyms (sometimes spelled bacronym) are acronyms back-formed from existing words.

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[SantaMufasa]

If this is how I'm spending my Saturday, then obviously, I must get a life. In any case, where Barb (BJCooper) initiated this "INVENTING ACRONYMS" insanity, I can't help myself from contributing:


I nane,
N onsense
V erbage
E volving
N eurotically
T hrough
I nitialing
N ame
G ames

A nswering
C ooper's
R equest
O f
N aming
Y okels,
M ore
S enselessness

Cheers,

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
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[BJCooperIT]

You are not calling me "neurotic", are you?
Come to think of it, yesterday I probably was...

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[SantaMufasa]

Not you, Barb...It's the rest of us neurotics that have fallen prey to your wiles.

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
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[SilentAiche]

[red]Purse[/red]anally,

(now that I realize BJCooperIT is actually a GIRLperson)

:

I always liked

time
iis
money

Initially, I was reluctant to post. Here.

er, me.

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[BJCooperIT]

Thank you! I Like Overtly Virtually Everyone too!

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[2ffat]

While this doesn't exactly fit, here is another old programming lanquage:
Lots o'
Insipid
Stupid
Parenthses

James P. Cottingham
-----------------------------------------
[sup]I'm number 1,229!
I'm number 1,229![/sup]

 

[tsdragon]

This is from the AUTHOR of the language:

Pathologically
Eclectic
Rubbish
Lister


Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[grooke]

Stop it, or I will sack the lot of you
Gil

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

N egatory
O bjection

 

[JediBMC]

Causes
Overwhelmingly
Many
Polite
Users
To
Execrate
Repeatedly



-Brian-
I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV.

 

[AngelB]

JediBMC, I read your penultimate word incorrectly the first time round - I've never know a computer to make a user do that!

Gez



Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all

 

[SteveGlo]

Not an acronym but the last post reminded me of a computer training course given by a dodgy company decades ago where the instructor said "stimulates the operator electronically" rather than "simulates the operator electronically".

Thing were harsh in those days - work too slowly and you got 3000 volts through the keyboard.