What have you achieved today?

[highland fox]

Done a first aid course

 

[Blue Maniac]

That may have been the original meaning, but these days it's acceptable to call something like GDL an acronym.

Can I start calling potatoes oranges?

 

[tedfoxxx]

Can I start calling potatoes oranges?

You could, but you will upset Macky if you do.

 

[Jeff]

Can I start calling potatoes oranges?

No. But you already use lots of words that have changed their meaning, why can't you accept that the meaning of 'acronym' has also changed?

 

[Steven]

Done a first aid course

Did it involve any kissing?

 

[highland fox]

Did it involve any kissing?

yeah i got a snog

 

[Steven]

Can I start calling potatoes oranges?

Can gay go back to meaning gay and not mean gay as it currently does?

 

[The Major]

That may have been the original meaning, but these days it's acceptable to call something like GDL an acronym.

No I think BM's right.

acronym noun a word made from the first letters or syllables of other words, and usually pronounced as a word in its own right, eg NATO. Compare abbreviation, contraction, initialism. acronymic adj.
ETYMOLOGY: 1940s: from Greek akron point or tip + onyma name.

 

[Blue Maniac]

No. But you already use lots of words that have changed their meaning, why can't you accept that the meaning of 'acronym' has also changed?

It must've been pretty quick, and fairly recent, because dictionary.com hasn't got wind of it yet.

 

[Jeff]

No I think BM's right.

acronym noun a word made from the first letters or syllables of other words, and usually pronounced as a word in its own right

Did you not notice the word 'usually' in there?
The use of that word means it's not always the case that it's pronounced as a word in its own right.

 

[Blue Maniac]

Did you not notice the word 'usually' in there?
The use of that word means it's not always the case that it's pronounced as a word in its own right.

At the same time, it ensures you don't have a licence to just throw the word 'acronym' around wherever initialisms appear. :icon_bigg

 

[Macky]

Acronyms are pronounced as words. 'Scuba' is an acronym, for example, whereas GDL is an initialism but not an acronym.

But what sort of tosser would point that out?

:icon_lol: :icon_lol: :icon_lol:

I was actually going to say initialism, but I thought it would've made me seem like an even bigger cock than usual. Brilliant.

 

[Blue Maniac]

:icon_lol: :icon_lol: :icon_lol:

I was actually going to say initialism, but I thought it would've made me seem like an even bigger cock than usual. Brilliant.

:icon_wink

 

[Dour]

Can gay go back to meaning gay and not mean gay as it currently does?

Hmm. Not sure how much it has changed. When I was on holiday, I read some war story I found in the flat where we were staying. It was a tale of much stiff upper lip bravery in the destroying of the dockyard at Saint-Nazaire, written in the 50s. Full of plenty of gay fellows, such as one chap who sported a monocle and strode around swinging a cane.

 

[Cate Fox]

Hmm. Not sure how much it has changed. When I was on holiday, I read some war story I found in the flat where we were staying. It was a tale of much stiff upper lip bravery in the destroying of the dockyard at Saint-Nazaire, written in the 50s. Full of plenty of gay fellows, such as one chap who sported a monocle and strode around swinging a cane.

did he shout "hurrah" alot ?

 

[MKFox]

Learnt what GOLF stands for.

go on....

 

[MKFox]

cooked perfect sauteed potatoes

 

[Macky]

cooked a pan of chips

That's women's work

 

[Jeff]

cooked perfect sauteed potatoes

What's the secret then?

 

[Macky]

What's the secret then?

You chop up some spuds and you fry them.
You can replace the puddies with Mars bars if you live in Scotland.