Can't find the meaning of an acronym

[EFLImpudence]

What utter bilge you write with your usual lack of understanding of simple questions.

Perhaps you would like to choose another view that is more suited to your tastes.
https://www.google.com/search?q=uni...wAhVJgf0HHYD9D6EQpwV6BAgBECI&biw=1336&bih=671

Sorry for the typo and lack of two capital Ts.

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

What utter bilge you write with your usual lack of understanding of simple questions.

Typical meaningless, unqualified comment from someone who is unable to formulate an intelligent response.
In addition, I notice you avoided responding and clarifying your obtuse and nonsensical comments:

Is what true or not?
My what doesn't?

Perhaps you would like to choose another view that is more suited to your tastes.
https://www.google.com/search?q=uni...wAhVJgf0HHYD9D6EQpwV6BAgBECI&biw=1336&bih=671

Perhaps you would like to present an article that supports your opinion instead of inviting an opponent to choose a supporting article for you?

Unless you couldn't find a reasonable article to support your radical opinion, and you are obliged to agree that the author of your first presented article is a raving lunatic to associate "a grasp of English" with nationalism, racism or misogyny

In my opinion his right wing populist tendencies determine his viewpoint.
Take for instance this comment of his:

"So woke, that even showing a grasp of the English language is now considered a nationalist, racist, misogynistic characteristic"​

How can anyone possibly relate the ability to speak English with being nationalistic, racist, or misogynistic?
The man's a raving lunatic.

Sorry for the typo and lack of two capital Ts.

No problems. But for someone complaining about use of English, I would have expected you to be able to distinguish the enormous difference between: "the times which (sic) I cannot read", and "The Times which I cannot read".

 

[Deleted member 18243]

Strictly speaking, isn't it only an acronym when an abbreviation makes another pronounceable word which then becomes common usage - so common, in fact, that the actual unabbreviated name may not be known by the user.

E.g. NASA but not RSPCA.

Yes, an acronym is a set of initials which produce a pronounceable word such as Radar and Sonar. If the initials don't make such a word they are merely initials! I've heard them called initialisms but I'm not having that!

 

[EFLImpudence]

While you're here, please answer Bobby for me.

 

[SirGalahad]

Mistakes should be corrected.

What mistakes? Shakespeare made up over a 1000 words - should we remove them as well?

We can definitely say when words are used incorrectly now.

That is your subjective opinion. Words did not materialise out of thin air - language evolves and so do words. Why is our vocabulary larger today than it was over 100 years ago?

Let's get rid of the word computer then?

https://interestingliterature.com/2020/02/origin-word-computer-etymology/

I thought it would be prudent to keep clear of this wrangle (riveting though it is, I don't have much spare time), but, when I looked at the website (linked above), I just could not resist the temptation. While I am in agreement with what the article is saying, I noticed that even the perfect (such as the article's author, and me) can make mistakes. Here's what I'm referring to, copied and pasted from the article: "Don’t worry, that doesn’t mean the university degree you imagine you deserve is out of your grasp" (he ought to have said, "beyond your reach". It's so darned easy to slip up, isn't it? Yet, this kind of problem is all the more reason to polish one's awareness and be willing to learn. This benefits everyone, including those that resent being corrected.
L.L.

However, there is no hope.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/520800-woke-uk-universities-appease-minorities/

You have fallen for an utterly s hit post of an article pushin this phantom culture war narrative.


Universities these days are desperate to get in as many fee paying students so have dropped standards and cut costs by letting more phd grads do the teaching and marking. Students now expect to pass after paying eye watering fees and the relationship between the student and the university has altered from one of the pupil and teacher to one of a consumer and service provider.

The universities to attract students wax lyrical about their high pass rates and their beautiful new buildings. You will notice how Unis have gone on a capital spending binge - this mimics what happens in the US and look at where that is heading. Crippling student debt.

 

[EFLImpudence]

WTF are you talking about?

It is not my subjective opinion on words that are misused - would of, should of...

Phantom ??? cultural war narrative.
The article wasn't pushing it; he was complaining about it - and as I linked, so are many others.


If mistakes don't matter then this

is a giraffe.

 

[SirGalahad]

WTF are you talking about?

It is not my subjective opinion on words that are misused - would of, should of...

Phantom ??? cultural war narrative.
The article wasn't pushing it; he was complaining about it - and as I linked, so are many others.


If mistakes don't matter then this
View attachment 230971
is a giraffe.

You are mixing grammatical errors and the meaning and etymology of words.

The complain about the culture war is that he is attaching it to the issues in the Unis which I have pointed out has more to do with the commecialisation of higher education and charging of fees.

Straw man argument that mistakes don't matter.

Again - Shakespeare made up words - should we get rid of them as well?

 

[SirGalahad]

No. It's too late to do anything about what has already been done.

Mistakes should be corrected.

Looks like that is contradictory.

 

[FiremanT]

When i joined on of the largest computer companies in the world in 1982, as part of the induction we got handed a BOOK with all the Acronyms !!!!!

What does ETAF stand for?

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

Is it true or not?

Is what true or not?

Yours doesn't.

My what doesn't?

While you're here, please answer Bobby for me.

If you are unable to clarify your own comments, how the heck do you expect anyone else to be able to do so?

You need to worry more about making your words mean something instead of worrying about whether the meanings of words can evolve.
Although we 've already seen that you have difficulty distinguishing between "the times" and "The Times".

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

If mistakes don't matter then this
View attachment 230971
is a giraffe.

As long as everyone recognises it as a giraffe, it makes little difference what the word is.
Why didn't you use the word "una formiga" to describe your presented image?
Few people would have recognised the image as una formiga. But it is still an accurate description.

 

[Stivino]

Or even una hormiga.

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

Or even una hormiga.

EFLImpudence is in Portugal, according to his profile.
But yes, your comment is not incorrect, we could have used "ایک چیونٹی" to describe the image.

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

You have fallen for an utterly s hit post of an article pushin this phantom culture war narrative.

Phantom ??? cultural war narrative.
The article wasn't pushing it; he was complaining about it

If there isn't really a culture war, then anyone who argues that there is, is arguing about a phantom culture war.
Therefore, they are pushing "the phantom culture war narrative".

You appear to be having difficulty understanding English.

and as I linked, so are many others.

You linked to one article pushing the phantom culture war narrative that was written by a right-wing Eurosceptic UKIP member.
You didn't present any other articles to be assessed.

 

[SirGalahad]

WTF are you talking about?

It is not my subjective opinion on words that are misused - would of, should of...

Phantom ??? cultural war narrative.
The article wasn't pushing it; he was complaining about it - and as I linked, so are many others.


If mistakes don't matter then this
View attachment 230971
is a giraffe.

A giraffe you say? Well the etymology of the word giraffe.

Camelopard, sometimes spelled cameleopard, is the more traditional English expression for a giraffe. It comes from Greek kamēlopárdalis, derived from kámēlos “camel” and párdalis “leopard”, and was common until the late 19th century.

The word giraffe, on the other hand, was introduced into the English-speaking world only during the 16th century. It comes from French girafe, which in turn comes from Arabic zarāfa.

https://jakubmarian.com/origin-of-the-words-camelopard-and-giraffe/

So we should call it Camelopard now?