Re: When was the SPARC 20 introduced and discontinued?

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From: chocolatemalt
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 01:58

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In article <436bdb38$0$11077$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
 Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM> wrote:

> chocolatemalt <chocolatemalt@dim=dot=com.invalid> writes:
> 
> >> > Except that they're not acronyms but rather abbreviations.
> 
> >Abbreviation:  computer -> comp.
> >Acronym:  Citizen's Band -> CB
> 
> Nope; acronyms are "nyms" and therefor they are "words" which
> can be pronounced.  Acronyms are "words formed from the letters
> of others".  So "CB" need not apply, it is not a "word".
> 
> Abbrevations are any form of shortening of words; this includes
> "comp.sys." or "CB".
> 
> Casper

Huh.  Right you are... I had thought any capitalized abbreviation 
applied for that term, but only the subset of examples like RADAR and 
LASER make the cut.  Thanks for setting me straight.  And I thought I 
spent too much time in the dictionary already.  :P  BTW, I get "name" 
for "nym", where "word" would be "logos" in Greek, but the sense you're 
using is the same.  Bummer about this enlightenment too -- terms like CB 
and CPU deserve something less stodgy than "initialism", ick.

Hmm... In my defense, I notice that numerous websites with "acronym" 
lists freely use it to describe any initialism at all.  Not that it's 
"correct" of course, but if misunderstanding becomes conventional and 
the dictionary changes in a few years, it wouldn't be the first time.

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