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[challenge entry] Does one letter count as an acronym?


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From the What do acronyms really stand for? challenge. See all 338 entries (closed)

(Indole Ring, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:24, archived)
# no
(I helped save b3ta! urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:28, archived)
# Bum.
I suppose zero is out of the question, then?
(Indole Ring, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:31, archived)
# Zebra's Eating Rotten Oranges?
Might work you know.
(I helped save b3ta! Yamon Benny Harvey. RIP., Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:44, archived)
# zero isn't an acronym already though.
isn't that the point?
(I helped save b3ta! urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:49, archived)
# yep.
That's just a word. try Scuba. silly cunts under boats...erm.....ARSE!
(I helped save b3ta! Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:46, archived)
# about 95%
of the compo entries don't count as acronyms either.
(I helped save b3ta! Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:33, archived)
# technically, no
but the compo blurb uses BBC and CIA, so it's no wonder people are confused
(I helped save b3ta! GarethAdams has 45 seconds in the Crystal Dome, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:36, archived)
# it's the compo
people are always confused. They hardly ever read and digest the thing, it's just a mad scrabble to produce a shit idea more shoddily and quicker than the next guy. Some compo entries are shocking, I can't understand why people can't step back a second and look at what they are actually doing.

The easiest ones to think of would be computer languages, plenty of them still not done. Cobol, Pascal, Basic, Perl, Java ad nauseum. And I did not check but I'm sure Yuppie is still to be done.
(I helped save b3ta! Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:44, archived)
# Damn, I wish I could think of a good tech-related acronym.
Oh well, I'll just use my laser mouse to click over to the weather radar page instead.
(Indole Ring, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:59, archived)