Irrational HatredPeople who say "less" when they mean "fewer" ought to be turned into soup, the soup fed to baboons and the baboons fired into an active volcano. What has you grinding your teeth with rage, and why?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 14:36)
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PSU, LCD - these are not acronyms.(
Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 16:22,
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In what sense?Because they have become words? (in which case they shouldn't be capitalised)?
Or because "These are not the acronym's you're looking for"?
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I think it's because a true acronym makes a word like laser or scubawhile LCD is just the first part of the name of a really shitty hipster band
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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 16:50,
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^What she said^(
Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 17:02,
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Good point.I was going to use Redundant Initialism Syndrome, but thought that anything with "RIS" in it would cause more confusion here than it cured.
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Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 22:45,
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In the sense that they are Initialisms(, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 16:58, closed)
Pedanticism aside, valid point is valid.(, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 17:11, closed)
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