About Acronyms and non-Acronyms?

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Friday, March 23. 2007

Posted by Marc 'Zugschlus' Haber in Computer und Netze at 19:22 | Comments (7) | Trackback (1)

About Acronyms and non-Acronyms?

I keep wondering why people keep writing HUB, WEB and SPAM, where the correct technical terms are Hub, Web and Spam. Neither of the three expressions is an acronym.

Well, SPAM is, but Spiced Pork and Ham is a Trademark of Hormel Industries, and they ask people not to use their trademark to talk about Unsolicited Commercial/Bulk E-Mail on the Internet. They do, however, allow the expression Spam to be used for UCE/UBE.

Any idea why people keep treating Hub and Web as an acronym? It disturbes my reading tremendously.

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Who is this Daniel Sturm guy anyway?
One of my last articles, About Acronyms and non-Acronyms, has drawn some comments. One of the first commentator was Daniel Sturm, whom I am not aware of knowing, suggesting that I get a life. Well, this is valuable advice, and I chose to allow the Comment (1)
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*who cares, get a life
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#1 Daniel Sturm on 2007-03-23 21:18 (Reply)
*Ach, es gibt ja auch Leute, die DER blog schreiben, obwohl es das web und das Log- bzw. Tagebuch sind.
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#2 Azundris (Homepage) on 2007-03-24 00:58 (Reply)
*It’s because people are stupid, and illiterate, and instead of actually figuring out which words are acronyms and which aren’t, they just treat any proper noun of four letters or less as an acronym. And yes, this is maddening.

- Chris
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#3 Chris Cunningham (Homepage) on 2007-03-25 06:40 (Reply)
*you seem to have no real problems in your life
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#4 Daniel Sturm on 2007-03-25 17:42 (Reply)
*Daniel,

there are many different categories to problems. And you really do not need to read this post if you don’t like it.

Kudos to Marc, I love to read your blog and enjoy even those “marginal” discussion like this one. Especially because I think you are right.
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#4.1 Jürgen R. Plasser (Homepage) on 2007-03-26 00:48 (Reply)
*> Any idea why people keep treating Hub and Web as an
> acronym?

IMO the combination of

not knowing exactly if the mentioned words are acronyms or not
 having read many TLAs and
* the will to express oneself correctly

leads to this phenomenon.

> It disturbes my reading tremendously.

It is indeed stunning.
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#5 Thilde (Homepage) on 2007-03-26 09:59 (Reply)
*I suppose people think that such pithy three-letter words couldn’t possibly encompass such big concepts, and that there must be some long and complicated expansion to do them justice...

I don’t know, maybe “Heuristic Universal Broadcaster”, “Wideband Encephaloform Bus”, and “Sentient and Pernicious Automated Mail”?
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#6 Roshan Shariff on 2007-04-01 18:41 (Reply)
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