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| Acronyms | The following link is to NetLingo's extensive List of Acronyms & Text Messaging Shorthand Acronyms have always been an integral part of computer culture, and they have since spawned a new language on the Internet. Commonly thought of as a series of letters that make up a "word" there is a distinction between acronyms and shorthand. Online enthusiasts, primarily millennials, are learning that shorthand are in fact called acronyms, but this is incorrect. The difference between acronyms and shorthand is that with acronyms, you pronounce the letters as a new word (for example, FUBAR is pronounced "foo-bar" and RADAR is pronounced "ray-dar"). In contrast, shorthand pronunciations are always to say the letters one-by-one and not pronounce it as a word (for example, FYI is pronounced "F-Y-I" and BRB is pronounced "B-R-B"). The difference between shorthand and an initialism (or abbreviation) is that the latter refers to the shortening of a word itself, for example "esp" for "especially." The online practice is to refer to any shorthand or abbreviation as an acronym. Examples commonly used in the SpamCop Forums include: BOFH - Bastard Operator From Hell BTW - By The Way IIRC - If I Remember Correctly or If I Recall Correctly IIUC - If I Understand Correctly IIWY - If It Was You ITYM - I Think You Mean PITA - Pain In The Ass TPTB - The Powers That Be TTFN - Ta Ta For Now tinu - there is no us tinw - there is no we URI - Uniform Resource Identifier URL - Uniform Resource Locator URN - Uniform Resource Name Alternate reference source: Internet slang From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. |
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