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quindraco@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    We should just go ahead and pronounce all acronyms the way their unabbreviated forms’ first syllable letters are said. Just ignore we treat individual letters differently than the words they came from.

    The CIA should sound like “see ya” Department of Transportation “Duht” Internal Revenue Service “ears”

    Etc.

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      CIA is an initialism, not an acronym, since you pronounce each letter individually.

      What you sir are suggesting is a complete erasure of initialisms, and I will not stand for it.

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        It wasn’t a real suggestion. A bit of hyperbole and exaggeration due to the pointless debate over jig/gif. We have a long precedent of pronouncing acronyms as initialisms and not enunciating the letters as they were pronounced in their original word. While I think the original argument over jif/gif was for fun, some can’t let it go.

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      Dept of Transportation would be “dot”, no?

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        People tend to pronounce “of” more like “uhv” in shove or glove, not like stove or clove. So I went with “duht” for pronunciation.

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      I would suggest the tax guys be pronounced ire’s. The raise my ire anyway.

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      So you’re saying gif

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        Lol, absolutely.

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        No.

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