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 threadGraham Sutherland / Polynomial4d ago

@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".

Show threadAdam Kent
@gsuberland @whitequark @mcc FWIW The Guardian style guide has a well known (possibly unpopular?) stance on acronyms https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-style-guide-a
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