Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>> >> A little joke yes I'm sure the part of the rule you mentioned is when a >> word >> like ID you find out is an acronym then explaining it would just confuse >> people. As its become a word in the common vernacular. >> I bet some people know what an ID is but not what "identification" is. >> Papers please! Works better for me than "show me your ID". >> >> >> Mark William Rabiner > > > > > Freud certainly knew what the id was and what identification was, but > never expected to have to produce the id or show it. > > -- And I'm no Heterophobe, Henning a Heteronym is a word which is spelt the same but sounds different. And also means different I'm sure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym Check the color wheel and you will see We are in the yellow area. Like yellow snow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Homograph_homophone_venn_diagram.png But actually what we are talking about is when we make a word out of an acronym instead of just saying out the individual letters. And people get all mad you do that. The one thing instead of the other. " spelt " is a word which I like but doesn't really exist. I like it because its spelt wrong. Do I care? But spelt also an extinct grain from Switzerland, Tyrol and Germany from the middle ages. But you can get now. Proving its always what you don't think. Mark William Rabiner