Abbreviations

In what language?

 

"He wouldn't let it lie"

 

But you understood, so it doesn't much matter.

Now answer the question.

 

Depends, you've chosen an extreme example, but language shifts like
this do occur. Look at regional (within one country) variations, slang
terms, playground rhymes, language within groups. There is a wider
issue of culture and identity here, the terms we use to state who and

For someone who is supposedly intelligent you really show yourself up
at times.

 

Second response to this, as the thread has sparked a family
discussion. This from number one son,

'To some it may be bollocks, but to others it's understandable
bollocks. I vote for Blaney'

 

Smart lad.

 

Too young to know his own mind. Fluent in bollocks, however.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Dave Swindell

Is this bosun Higgs, by any chance?

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Ouch!

 

He is that. NAGTY member and everything. Detention this week for
failure to apply himself though. Long conversation with Deputy Head
including 'If he doesn't go to one of the top universities then he's
wasting his talents'. Much like I did then

I wish. The trouble with teaching them to have a mind of their own is
well, they have a mind of their own.

He learnt from the best.

 

Or bowlocks as bollocks.....

 

I didn't say it did.

 

Des, it's a thin line between idiot and twat and you tread it with the skill
of Blondin.

 

"Pronouncability", shureley?

 

Dr Ivan D. Reid secured a place in history by writing:

And to nail this finally:

"Word: A sound or a combination of sounds, or its representation in writing
or printing, that symbolizes and communicates a meaning and may consist of
a single morpheme or of a combination of morphemes"

So any bunch of initial letters will do, it doesn't have to be an /English/
word, it doesn't have to be a word in /any/ language, it doesn't have to be
pronounceable without excessive gobbing. And all this wittering about
abbreviations is, frankly, out of place in a discussion about acronyms.
DIMMC?

 

What's radar an acronym of then?
--
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Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply)
Alfa 116 Giulietta 3.0l (Really) Sprint 1.7 75 2.0 TS
Triumph Speed Triple: Black with extra black bits
www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk

 

Radio Detection And Ranging.

 

IKWYM

 

Well I never did. I knew it was a palindrome, but I never knew that, TYVM
--
Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3
Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply)
Alfa 116 Giulietta 3.0l (Really) Sprint 1.7 75 2.0 TS
Triumph Speed Triple: Black with extra black bits
www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk

 

You are, of course, correct: only a complete imbecile could disagree.[1]

Whilst there is still life in the original definitions and their
differences add to our language I think that informed[2] people should try
to use the words "correctly".

[1] Just why *do* people respond to Des? [2] Like wot we ar.