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Crackshaft: Acronym Anonymous
https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2025/10/14

Yes, there are way too many acronyms nowadays.

Lynn

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Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> schrieb:

Crackshaft: Acronym Anonymous
https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2025/10/14

Yes, there are way too many acronyms nowadays.

17576 TLAs, but 456976 ETLAs.

The problem is when these namespaces run out.
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On 10/14/2025 5:08 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Crackshaft: Acronym Anonymous
-a-a https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2025/10/14

Yes, there are way too many acronyms nowadays.

It's an initialism, not an acronym. He didn't pronounce it as a word;
he spelled it out.
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Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
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On 10/14/2025 4:31 PM, Mark Jackson wrote:

On 10/14/2025 5:08 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Crackshaft: Acronym Anonymous
-a-a-a https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2025/10/14

Yes, there are way too many acronyms nowadays.

It's an initialism, not an acronym.-a He didn't pronounce it as a word;
he spelled it out.

On 10/14/2025 4:31 PM, Mark Jackson wrote:

On 10/14/2025 5:08 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Crackshaft: Acronym Anonymous
https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2025/10/14

Yes, there are way too many acronyms nowadays.

It's an initialism, not an acronym. He didn't pronounce it as a word;
he spelled it out.

That may be a battle we're losing although I'm fighting it hard.

From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acronym

What is the difference between an acronym and an initialism?

Both acronyms and initialisms are made up of the first letter or letters
of the words in a phrase. The word acronym typically applies when the resulting thing can be read as a word; for example, radar comes from
"radio detection and ranging" and scuba comes from "self-contained
underwater breathing apparatus." The word initialism only applies when
the resulting thing is read as an abbreviation; for example DIY, which
comes from "do it yourself," is pronounced by saying the names of the
letters. Note that the word acronym is also sometimes used to mean "initialism."

M-W used to have a hard line between the two.


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On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 20:13:06 -0500, Jay Morris wrote:

On 10/14/2025 4:31 PM, Mark Jackson wrote:

On 10/14/2025 5:08 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Crackshaft: Acronym Anonymous
-a-a-a https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2025/10/14

Yes, there are way too many acronyms nowadays.

It's an initialism, not an acronym.-a He didn't pronounce it as a word;
he spelled it out.

On 10/14/2025 4:31 PM, Mark Jackson wrote:

On 10/14/2025 5:08 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Crackshaft: Acronym Anonymous
https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2025/10/14

Yes, there are way too many acronyms nowadays.

It's an initialism, not an acronym. He didn't pronounce it as a
word;
he spelled it out.

That may be a battle we're losing although I'm fighting it hard.

From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acronym

What is the difference between an acronym and an initialism?

Both acronyms and initialisms are made up of the first letter or letters
of the words in a phrase. The word acronym typically applies when the resulting thing can be read as a word; for example, radar comes from
"radio detection and ranging" and scuba comes from "self-contained
underwater breathing apparatus." The word initialism only applies when
the resulting thing is read as an abbreviation; for example DIY, which
comes from "do it yourself," is pronounced by saying the names of the letters. Note that the word acronym is also sometimes used to mean "initialism."

Google NGram shows that once usage of "acronym" took off exponentially "initialism" was left in the dust.

M-W used to have a hard line between the two.

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On 10/14/2025 9:13 PM, Jay Morris wrote:

On 10/14/2025 4:31 PM, Mark Jackson wrote:

On 10/14/2025 5:08 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Crackshaft: Acronym Anonymous
-a-a-a https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2025/10/14

Yes, there are way too many acronyms nowadays.

It's an initialism, not an acronym.-a He didn't pronounce it as a word;
he spelled it out.

On 10/14/2025 4:31 PM, Mark Jackson wrote:

On 10/14/2025 5:08 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Crackshaft: Acronym Anonymous
-a-a-a-a https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2025/10/14

Yes, there are way too many acronyms nowadays.

It's an initialism, not an acronym.-a He didn't pronounce it as a word;
he spelled it out.

That may be a battle we're losing although I'm fighting it hard.

We don't know if he spelled it out or not.

I've heard the term spoken as 'woo-eee', within
the last week or so, in discussions of wildfire
preparedness.

The joke wouldn't have worked with just WUI, so
the artist added the periods to make it clear.

pt
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On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:08:24 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

Crackshaft: Acronym Anonymous
https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2025/10/14

Yes, there are way too many acronyms nowadays.

I'm constantly encountering new ones when I read the News app.
Sometimes I look them up, sometimes I make up my own phrase. Depending
on how much I care, given the content of the story.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"
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On 10/15/2025 12:06 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 10/14/2025 9:13 PM, Jay Morris wrote:

On 10/14/2025 4:31 PM, Mark Jackson wrote:

On 10/14/2025 5:08 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Crackshaft: Acronym Anonymous
-a-a-a https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2025/10/14

Yes, there are way too many acronyms nowadays.

It's an initialism, not an acronym.-a He didn't pronounce it as a
word; he spelled it out.

On 10/14/2025 4:31 PM, Mark Jackson wrote:

On 10/14/2025 5:08 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Crackshaft: Acronym Anonymous
-a-a-a-a https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2025/10/14

Yes, there are way too many acronyms nowadays.

It's an initialism, not an acronym.-a He didn't pronounce it as a word; >> -a> he spelled it out.

That may be a battle we're losing although I'm fighting it hard.

We don't know if he spelled it out or not.

I'm inclined to believe the cartoonist, whose intent is shown by the
period after each letter.
--
Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
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On 10/15/2025 11:08 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:08:24 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

Crackshaft: Acronym Anonymous
https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2025/10/14

Yes, there are way too many acronyms nowadays.

I'm constantly encountering new ones when I read the News app.
Sometimes I look them up, sometimes I make up my own phrase. Depending
on how much I care, given the content of the story.

I run into new and strange acronyms every day while working on
engineering chemical process plants.

Lynn

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