Today's Random Word!

  • SSD!!! (do acronyms count?)

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

  • Peter Trast (1/26/2011)


    SSD!!! (do acronyms count?)

    Yes

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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  • CirquedeSQLeil (1/26/2011)


    Peter Trast (1/26/2011)


    SSD!!! (do acronyms count?)

    Yes

    <Mark being pedantic> (and getting to use the word pedantic 🙂

    Since this is the word thread and acronyms are allowed...

    The word, acronym, is often confused with abbreviation. WASP is an acronym since its letters create a word. SSD, on the other hand, is just an abbreviation.

    </Mark being pedantic>

    edit -> had "it's" rather than "its"

    The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. - Stephen Hawking

  • mtillman-921105 (1/26/2011)


    CirquedeSQLeil (1/26/2011)


    Peter Trast (1/26/2011)


    SSD!!! (do acronyms count?)

    Yes

    <Mark being pedantic> (and getting to use the word pedantic 🙂

    Since this is the word thread and acronyms are allowed...

    The word, acronym, is often confused with abbreviation. WASP is an acronym since its letters create a word. SSD, on the other hand, is just an abbreviation.

    </Mark being pedantic>

    edit -> had "it's" rather than "its"

    You can't pronounce SSD?? You say it the way it looks...

    More precisely, it is an initialism which is a specific type of abbreviation, as acronym is also. Abbreviation is the shortening of any word or group of words. Acronyms are typically abbreviations which form pronouncable words and initialisms are a grouping of the first (initial letters) of a string of words... not to be too pedantic about it 🙂

    But since most people (99.999%) have never heard of initialisms, common usage of the term acronym (however inaccurate) is generally considered acceptable and widely understood, which is, after all, the purpose of language, yes?

    OK then.

    "SQL"

    😉

    Let the fun begin...

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

  • Tertiary.

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

  • Binary

    -- You can't be late until you show up.

  • Inconceivable!

    (yes, I know what it means 😉 )

    (never get tired of that one, how many times has it hit this thread? Never??? I cannot be the first... really???)

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

  • Peter Trast (1/27/2011)


    Inconceivable!

    (yes, I know what it means 😉 )

    And yet, I cannot resist the temptation...

    "That word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

  • CirquedeSQLeil (1/26/2011)


    Jimmer

    I live not far from his hometown, so Jimmer's a big deal around here as well!

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  • Peter Trast (1/27/2011)


    Inconceivable!

    (yes, I know what it means 😉 )

    (never get tired of that one, how many times has it hit this thread? Never??? I cannot be the first... really???)

    Ahhh, the classics. 🙂

  • True love.

    -- Kit

  • Puppy Love

    Joe

  • crookj (1/27/2011)


    Puppy Love

    Kit G (1/27/2011)


    True love.

    Hunka, hunka burnin' love.

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

  • Brandie Tarvin (1/27/2011)


    crookj (1/27/2011)


    Puppy Love

    Kit G (1/27/2011)


    True love.

    Hunka, hunka burnin' love.

    LOL Brandie - both Alvin and I are here in Memphis! "Thank ya, thank ya very much."

    The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. - Stephen Hawking

  • Mike Love

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