how do you prnounce watmm?

Phil Hipglass

skonez2dy4

I aways say "we are the music makers"

  kakapo said:

  Joyrex said:

I've never said the acronym - I aways say "we are the music makers"

 

 

How many fucking times. It's not an acronym, it's an abbreviation. An 'initialed' abbreviation.

 

Acronym = C.O.B.R.A

Abbreviation = IDM

isn't an acronym just an abbreviation pronounced as a word? i mean, the dictionary uses 'AIDS' as an example, so if AIDS is an acronym, surely WATMM can be too

as a word. does it have to actually be a word like cobra?

waddum

  kakapo said:

  Joyrex said:

I've never said the acronym - I aways say "we are the music makers"

 

 

How many fucking times. It's not an acronym, it's an abbreviation. An 'initialed' abbreviation.

 

Acronym = C.O.B.R.A

Abbreviation = IDM

I beg to differ: (from dictionary.com):

Acronym:

a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.

Abbreviation:

a shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, as Dr. for Doctor, U.S. for United States, lb. for pound.

Now, they are very similar, if it weren't for the part I bolded in the definition of acronym: initial letters - this is what makes it an acronym, and not an abbreviation. Look at the examples provided as further proof.

WATMM is not an abbreviation of "We Are The Music Makers", otherwise it'd be something like "We Are The MM" or some ghey shit like that.

for some reason, I still feel like Kakapo won that argument.

jotrex won this round

  dr lopez said:

for some reason, I still feel like Kakapo won that argument.

For some reason, I still feel like you're wrong

lol

wat (like "cat")

umm

  Joyrex said:

  dr lopez said:

for some reason, I still feel like Kakapo won that argument.

 

For some reason, I still feel like you're wrong

At best it's a 'partial' acronym, the concept of which has come about by the repeated and errenoeous use of 'acronym'.

Dictionary.com?

Hey I tell you what, why don't I swap my renaissance education from a school 3 times older than your country for fucking dictionary.com. Dictionary.com can fuck me up the fucking arse you fuck.

"Hwathum, what's hwathum..."

next: how do people pronounce my nickname

  kakapo said:

  Joyrex said:

  dr lopez said:

for some reason, I still feel like Kakapo won that argument.

 

For some reason, I still feel like you're wrong

 

 

At best it's a 'partial' acronym, the concept of which has come about by the repeated and errenoeous use of 'acronym'.

 

Dictionary.com?

 

Hey I tell you what, why don't I swap my renaissance education from a school 3 times older than your country for fucking dictionary.com. Dictionary.com can fuck me up the fucking arse you fuck.

http://www.dictionary.cambridge.org/define...5&dict=CALD

can you explain the AIDS thing to me

hmm, they don't even say AIDS is an acronym:

http://www.dictionary.cambridge.org/define...0&dict=CALD

Acronym: IDM, WATMM, THC, KGB

Abbreviation: St (street), Mt (Mount), Sgt (Sargent)

Looks like that centuries-old school was run by some pretty retarded people.

  tauboo said:

  kakapo said:

  Joyrex said:

  dr lopez said:

for some reason, I still feel like Kakapo won that argument.

 

For some reason, I still feel like you're wrong

 

 

At best it's a 'partial' acronym, the concept of which has come about by the repeated and errenoeous use of 'acronym'.

 

Dictionary.com?

 

Hey I tell you what, why don't I swap my renaissance education from a school 3 times older than your country for fucking dictionary.com. Dictionary.com can fuck me up the fucking arse you fuck.

http://www.dictionary.cambridge.org/define...5&dict=CALD

 

can you explain the AIDS thing to me

 

hmm, they don't even say AIDS is an acronym:

http://www.dictionary.cambridge.org/define...0&dict=CALD

Yes.

It's a 'partial' acronym, not a 'true' acronym.

  autopilot said:

Acronym: IDM

:pinch:

  autopilot said:

Acronym: IDM, WATMM, THC, KGB

 

Abbreviation: St (street), Mt (Mount), Sgt (Sargent)

 

Looks like that centuries-old school was run by some pretty retarded people.

At least some people on here understand the concept of pronouncing initialed abbreviations as words.

How the fuck is KGB an acronym, you total fucking idiot?

You tell me, professor!

  kakapo said:

  Joyrex said:

  dr lopez said:

for some reason, I still feel like Kakapo won that argument.

 

For some reason, I still feel like you're wrong

 

 

At best it's a 'partial' acronym, the concept of which has come about by the repeated and errenoeous use of 'acronym'.

 

Dictionary.com?

 

Hey I tell you what, why don't I swap my renaissance education from a school 3 times older than your country for fucking dictionary.com. Dictionary.com can fuck me up the fucking arse you fuck.

Well, the point of failure here is not your school, but rather your inability to grasp the material correctly and use it.

My use of the phrase from the Caustic Window song is as a title, in this case, a name of a website. It's not a 'phrase' or any of that nonsense. Therefore, like RADAR or WHO, it's an acronym. So, it's use in this case is not errenoeous or wrong, but rather your misunderstanding of the WATMM title and brand is.

Now c'mere and give Papa Rex a big 'ol hug! :laughing:

KGB = Komitjet Gosudarstvjennoj Bjezopasnosti

FUCKING LOLZ HAVE ENSUED.

The definition for "music" at dictionary.com is wrong.

Jussayin.

wah-teh-em-em

  Braintree said:

The definition for "music" at dictionary.com is wrong.

 

Jussayin.

People around here think post-confield AE is music. I wouldn't trust their definition.