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     | Sunday, January 09, 2000 - 03:59 pm  I've asked several times, I guess some people just don't get it.
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| | Thursday, January 06, 2000 - 06:06 pm Thanks. It's not that I mean to be so picky, it's just that we as people are taken so much more seriously if we can write and speak well. :-) Love your website by the way. :-)
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| | Thursday, January 06, 2000 - 06:08 pm Greg: Oxford's. An older edition at that, it's from 1972.
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| | Friday, January 07, 2000 - 06:06 am Mr. William Scott Lockwood III: The world did not end in 1972. Look up "microprocessor." "AIDS." "U.S.S.R." "Internet."
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| | Friday, January 07, 2000 - 03:17 pm A.I.D.S. and U.S.S.R. are both acronyms, and as such are at best proper nouns. The question was whom do I trust as a source of legitimacy on the English language. Not when the world did or would end. I have more experience with A.I.D.S. and HIV than you will ever have. I'm a Laboratory Technician by training. That fits into professional knowledge, which you wouldn't expect to find in your regular reference on the English language. You WILL however find it in "Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary" of which I own the 1989 edition - the year it was issued to me in school. As to microprocessor and Internet, these two also fall into the professional category - I now work as a consultant in the IT industry, but do not have a reference for IT terminology. I haven't felt the need, and still don't. I hope you found my answers helpful at my level, and there is no supervisor, board of directors, or stockholders association for you to take this up with. :-) Scott
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| | Friday, January 07, 2000 - 10:01 pm http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=AIDS http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=U.S.S.R. http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=microprocessor http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=Internet Irregardless of whether or not you say they exist "in your regular reference on the English language," they exist.
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| | Sunday, January 09, 2000 - 04:28 am They DO exist. Don't put words in my mouth, and don't hide behind the cowardice of anonymity. Also, clean the shit out of your eyes, you'll find that I did not say they didn't exist. In fact I did help to define them, and what and where you would expect to find them. You are such an idiot!
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| | Sunday, January 09, 2000 - 11:54 am Mr. William Scott Lockwood III (Spock): An acronymn is a word (as radar (radio detecting and ranging) or snafu (situation normal: all fouled up)) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term. The best ones create a word relating to the subject to which the word relates. Other examples: MADD for Mothers Against Drunk Driving SADD for Students Against Drunk Driving WAC for Women's Army Corps LASER for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation SCUBA for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus ZIP for Zone Improvement Program BASIC for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code BASE Jumping - for Building, Antennae, Span, Earth ASAP for As Soon As Possible FAQ for Frequently Asked Questions So, U.S.S.R. is not an acronym (how do you pronounce it?) but, rather, an abbreviation. Let's preserve the language and the definition of acronym! Your answer was not helpful at your level, and since you are the only level, there's nobody to which to pass-off the responsibility. You have to take full responsibility for it yourself. Are you a Trekkie?
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| | Tuesday, January 11, 2000 - 12:02 pm Hey Greg, no knocking Trekkies! :)
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