mcc4d ago

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"?

Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧4d ago
@mcc isn't the thing you're describing "initialism" and "acronym" the thing you're asking for? (or at least that's what i thought these words mean)
Show threadsyn4d ago
@whitequark @mcc an acronym is when you say the word (NASA, LASER), an initialism is when you say the letters (GPU)
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧
@syn @mcc wiktionary says that "komsomol" is an acromym (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Komsomol) so i think that's what it's called
Komsomol - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Show threadmcc4d ago
@whitequark @syn If wikitionary had actually spelled it "acromym" I would have proposed making it the new official name for the concept
Show threadTom Forsyth4d ago
@mcc @whitequark @syn Nazi and Stasi are whatever this is, too. Spotting a pattern...
Show threadSergey Petushkov4d ago
@whitequark @syn @mcc interesting that clicking through on a Russian word gives a slightly different name: syllabic abbreviation https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#syllabic_abbreviation
Appendix:Glossary - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧4d ago
@gribnoysup @syn @mcc oh, i guess that's the exact thing mcc is looking for then :D