>I fear that your `anacronym' is an anacronism and what you really meant
>was acronym - a synthesized word made from the first characters of the
>words of a (group or organizational) name.
>
Yup, that is what I wanted.
>> have spent so little time dealing with the system, that they clearly
>> can't base their statements on anything educated. It doesn't matter if it
>> is the Mac, or if it is something else.
>
>Hmmmm!
Case in point... I have shown my lack of education in language time and
time again, my grammar, and spelling, are horrible. I have little grasp
of the fundimentals of ANY language, and people would be ill-advised to
listen to much of an argument I might present regarding language use. I
failed my way thru all english classes from grade school thru college. (I
am fluent however in mumble-ese)
So it would be expected that I would make such a mistake above. But then,
I haven't tried to argue language concepts since I put my foot in my
mouth regarding sentense structure some time back. (I don't consider
correcting MAC to Mac to be a language argument, rather a usuage
arguement for lack of a better word, along the lines of pointing out that
PS/2 is an IBM computer, and PS2 is a Sony game system... you don't need
to know language for that, you just need to know how the terms are used
by their respective groups)
-chris
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