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> tardigrade-specific intrinsically disordered proteins (TDPs) Going from "Tartigrade-specific intrinsically" to a single T in the acronym is rather interestin
by folkrav 4y ago
> tardigrade-specific intrinsically disordered proteins (TDPs)
Going from "Tartigrade-specific intrinsically" to a single T in the acronym is rather interesting...
- leephillips 4y agoWhat acronym?
- folkrav 4y agoThe one in my quote, that's used in multiple places in the very article...?
- leephillips 4y ago[flagged]
- folkrav 4y agoTDP -> tardigrade-specific intrinsically disordered protein Most people would agree that this is an acronym - although some purists may prefer "initialism" as it's not pronounced as a word. At least, Merriam Webster seems to agree, and Oxford's lists that purist definition second to the way I used it.
- akvadrako 4y agoI would say it's only an acronym if it's pronouncable. Maybe that's what they mean.
- cshimmin 4y agoI think it's a pedantic attempt to bring up the whole "initialism vs acronym" thing. You know, kinda thing that makes you real fun at parties.
- folkrav 4y agoYeah, I kind of figured that out as you responded - see my other comment hehe. For what it's worth, Merriam Webster seems to agree that the distinction is basically arbitrary, and OED has the more general definition first lol
- crazygringo 4y agoOh yikes. I've never even heard of the term "initialism" before. I guess that's because it's barely used: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=acronym%2Cinitialism&year_start=1950&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=acronym%2Cinit... Maybe some people have tried to push it as a new word in common usage but they don't appear to have succeeded.
- jancsika 4y agopronounces the relevant initialism as a series of transients, Czech-style That acronym.