Imagine an "acronym" but instead of taking the first letter of each word, you took the entire first syllable of each word. I notice Japan, which incidentally has a syllabary, seems to create this sort of "acronym" fairly often.
Is there a word, like a linguistics word, for this type of syllabic "acronym"?
This name is unacceptably long, and therefore I propose we shorten it to "SylAb"
@[email protected] wikipedia at least calls them syllabic abbreviations https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_syllabic_abbreviations
@whitequark @mcc both of those use the first letter of each word, but strictly speaking initialisms are read out as the letters (e.g. BGP, TCP) and acronyms are pronounced as a word (e.g. LARP, PIN), although in practice "acronym" gets used to mean both.
I think what mcc wants is more like "LoRa".
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the last one is even kinda readable once you know to read that strange "o" as "the".
Let me say that one of the things I most dislike in Tumblr (in addition to not being able to limit search of tags simply to your own blog) is the lack of automatic time stamps.
@whitequark Ooh, I've had *fierce* arguments on Wikipedia about that one.
In my opinion, it's not even a useful distinction, because the same word can be pronounced either way, e.g. "earl" vs "you are ell".
@mcc This might be a good place to start for info about that feature. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_abbreviated_and_contracted_words
@mcc Like Nabisco (for National Biscuit Company) or SoHo (South of Houston?) Some parts of the internet say "syllabic abbreviations" although obviously that should be shortened to syllabbs.
@mcc The closest I can find is people just saying "we have no specific English word for this, so we'll borrow the Japanese word ryakugo".
Which is translated as 'abbreviation' but it's kind of like how 'danraku' is translated as 'paragraph' even though they're similar but not really the same thing.
@mcc Mandarin also does this, but with the first character (e.g. 高速铁路, "high speed railway", becomes 高铁, "high iron"). I would probably call them abbreviations, but that's somewhat generic
legal german does it similarly, but they just use enough characters to distinguish conflicting terms, it can get annoying
e.g. BVerfG for Bundesverfassungsgericht and BVerwG for Bundesverwaltungsgericht, two different courts
or SGB for Socialgesetzbuch and StGB for Strafgesetzbuch, two different laws
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