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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