“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a research project in need of funds must be in search of a terrific acronym,” is a reference to Jane Austen's opening line in Pride and Prejudice": "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Google AI Overview: An acronym is a word formed from the first letters (or syllables) of a phrase or compound term, pronounced as a single word (e.g., NASA, RADAR, SCUBA).
Mirrian-Webster: a word (such as NATO, radar, or laser) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term; also : an abbreviation (such as FBI) formed from initial letters : initialism.
The Finns have a rude word for making unnecessarily fine distinctions.
(Astonishingly Obtuse And Not Getting The Point Of The Article.)
Because: TAOANEILTRNT !
( The Acronym or Abbreviation NOT Explained is Like The Road Never Traveled.)
Clearly: ATMAATD !
( And that made all the difference. )
Can you all see that it is the complete UNWILLINGNESS to explain the acronyms and abbreviations, that is the actual problem. Any student who throws
around unexplained stuff, should automatically get an F!
Why? Because there is a difference between COMMUNICATING and wrapping your beehive in a shroud of secrecy! Teaching, learning, reason, knowledge, science is
first and foremost about good COMMUNICATION skills.
That distinction does not matter. If the acronym or abbreviation cannot be deciphered by the reader, then the main purpose of either one is not achieved. As the article stated, only about 0.2% of acronyms are understood, because they are repeated often, and are explained numerous times. NATO and DNA are two examples of an acronym that has been provided in its full clear text. It simply is dumb to use unexplained acronyms or abbreviations.
I am old enough to remember the good old days (pre-internet, probably), when I could have corrected you by pointing out that UA and ED are not acronyms, merely abbreviations. or initialisms.
Acronyms are all about creating jargon to satisfy ones pretentious pride within his/her organization. The more acronyms one knows, the greater the standing within the organization.
Well, any scientist, or doctor, or software person, or other such people, who dare to use acronyms without at the very least providing an INDEX with EXPLANATIONS of every ACRONYM used in the text (whereby it would be wrong, bad, forbidden to use any other unexplained acronym in the very INDEX of acronyms), should be suffering severe financial punishments, or may be should be shot
to Mars or deep into the heart of Uranus. It is a mere lack of common courtesy and decency that causes this AAAWE (Absurd Addiction to Acronyms Without Explanations).
Only those that can be pronounced as new articulable words are acronyms. The rest are simply initialisms. Clearly this article was written by a science major not an English major.
I began my career as a scientist and then switched to Education. If you think science uses a lot of acronyms, whole sentences are made of acronyms by teachers!
I don't know for sure, but I think the phone company (BELL) had nearly as many incomprehensible acronyms :-)
Aid for coining really odd names for your mission (ACRONYM)
(by Vijay Mahajan)
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a research project in need of funds must be in search of a terrific acronym,” is a reference to Jane Austen's opening line in Pride and Prejudice": "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
You make the common mistake of calling Initialisms as Acronymns. DNA and FFP are not acronyms.
Google AI Overview: An acronym is a word formed from the first letters (or syllables) of a phrase or compound term, pronounced as a single word (e.g., NASA, RADAR, SCUBA).
Mirrian-Webster: a word (such as NATO, radar, or laser) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term; also : an abbreviation (such as FBI) formed from initial letters : initialism.
The Finns have a rude word for making unnecessarily fine distinctions.
AI is wrong. An initialism is not an acronym. They are distinct.
SC ( also known as Steve Conklin) is AOANGTPOTA !
(Astonishingly Obtuse And Not Getting The Point Of The Article.)
Because: TAOANEILTRNT !
( The Acronym or Abbreviation NOT Explained is Like The Road Never Traveled.)
Clearly: ATMAATD !
( And that made all the difference. )
Can you all see that it is the complete UNWILLINGNESS to explain the acronyms and abbreviations, that is the actual problem. Any student who throws
around unexplained stuff, should automatically get an F!
Why? Because there is a difference between COMMUNICATING and wrapping your beehive in a shroud of secrecy! Teaching, learning, reason, knowledge, science is
first and foremost about good COMMUNICATION skills.
My Google ai says this "Pronounced as a Word: Unlike initialisms, acronyms are read as words (e.g., NATO) rather than individual letters."
That distinction does not matter. If the acronym or abbreviation cannot be deciphered by the reader, then the main purpose of either one is not achieved. As the article stated, only about 0.2% of acronyms are understood, because they are repeated often, and are explained numerous times. NATO and DNA are two examples of an acronym that has been provided in its full clear text. It simply is dumb to use unexplained acronyms or abbreviations.
I am old enough to remember the good old days (pre-internet, probably), when I could have corrected you by pointing out that UA and ED are not acronyms, merely abbreviations. or initialisms.
Ah, those good old days ...
Acronyms are all about creating jargon to satisfy ones pretentious pride within his/her organization. The more acronyms one knows, the greater the standing within the organization.
Well, any scientist, or doctor, or software person, or other such people, who dare to use acronyms without at the very least providing an INDEX with EXPLANATIONS of every ACRONYM used in the text (whereby it would be wrong, bad, forbidden to use any other unexplained acronym in the very INDEX of acronyms), should be suffering severe financial punishments, or may be should be shot
to Mars or deep into the heart of Uranus. It is a mere lack of common courtesy and decency that causes this AAAWE (Absurd Addiction to Acronyms Without Explanations).
Only those that can be pronounced as new articulable words are acronyms. The rest are simply initialisms. Clearly this article was written by a science major not an English major.
I began my career as a scientist and then switched to Education. If you think science uses a lot of acronyms, whole sentences are made of acronyms by teachers!
NEWS - North East West South
Television- Tell a Vision
TACO, and now NACHO