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Does teraflop really count as a "word" if it has an acronym as part of it?
by tombert 5y ago
Does teraflop really count as a "word" if it has an acronym as part of it?
- Jtsummers 5y agoLaser, sonar, radar. Many, if not most, acronyms become words on their own at some point in English, especially if they enter the popular lexicon (leave their initial niche).
- LudwigNagasena 5y agoWhy not?
- djur 5y agoSure. "Laser" is a word too, and it's all acronym.
- ticklemyelmo 5y agoI'm more bothered by the omission of "s". The S in teraflops is not plural, it's part of the acronym. Your computer has 1 teraflop performance? One trillion floating point operations per _what_, then?