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Does PNAS realize that their acronym is ridiculous and hilarious? Was that done on purpose?

Florin_Andrei 13y ago
It took me a while to realize why you said that. I think you've been over-sensitized by spending too much time in certain regions of the Internet. When the only tool in your possession is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When most of your informational input is of a certain nature, everything else tends to relate to it.
- colanderman 13y ago
  No. There is only one way to pronounce "PNAS" (other than spelling it), and it sounds exactly like "penis". Not "cock", "dong", "member", "wang", or any other arguably childish euphemism. It sounds exactly like the proper English noun for male genitalia. And this has nothing to do with you me or the parent thinking it sounds like "penis". EVERYBODY WE TALK TO will think we're saying "penis". Believe me, I get this enough with Coq (the theorem prover) and "cock"'s merely slang.
  - qwerty_asdf 13y ago
    I can't wait until the National Academy of Sciences holds additional proceedings on the seventh planet in our solar system!
    - OneOneOneOne 13y ago
      They can play the 6th movement from Holst's "The Planets" at their opening ceremony Uranus, the Magician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planets#Structure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planets#Structure
  - chc 13y ago
    Unless you're from a very weird part of the deep South, I don't believe the male organ is ever pronounced /pi:næs/. It's pronounced /pi:nəs/.
    - colanderman 13y ago
      Huh? In the northeast it's invariably pronounced /pi:nIs/. /I/ and /æ/ are phonetically close enough to be substitutable in the syllable "nas".
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  - moocowduckquack 13y ago
    I'd pronounce PNAS with a hard a, like in ass, not like the end of penis, which has the i in kiss, so personally I don't find it that much of a homophone. Though I hate to think what that sentence has just done to you, given your sensitivity in such matters.
    - colanderman 13y ago
      Though I hate to think what that sentence has just done to you, given your sensitivity in such matters. Beside being unnecessarily snide, you missed my point, like, entirely. I don't give a rat's ass that it sounds like penis. But I couldn't say it in public without eliciting childish sniggers from whomever I'm trying to talk to.
      - moocowduckquack 13y ago
        Well, they have been managing fine since 1915, apparently without it hindering things all that much.

It took me a while to realize why you said that. I think you've been over-sensitized by spending too much time in certain regions of the Internet. When the only tool in your possession is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When most of your informational input is of a certain nature, everything else tends to relate to it.

colanderman 13y ago
No. There is only one way to pronounce "PNAS" (other than spelling it), and it sounds exactly like "penis". Not "cock", "dong", "member", "wang", or any other arguably childish euphemism. It sounds exactly like the proper English noun for male genitalia. And this has nothing to do with you me or the parent thinking it sounds like "penis". EVERYBODY WE TALK TO will think we're saying "penis". Believe me, I get this enough with Coq (the theorem prover) and "cock"'s merely slang.
- qwerty_asdf 13y ago
  I can't wait until the National Academy of Sciences holds additional proceedings on the seventh planet in our solar system!
  - OneOneOneOne 13y ago
    They can play the 6th movement from Holst's "The Planets" at their opening ceremony Uranus, the Magician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planets#Structure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planets#Structure
- chc 13y ago
  Unless you're from a very weird part of the deep South, I don't believe the male organ is ever pronounced /pi:næs/. It's pronounced /pi:nəs/.
  - colanderman 13y ago
    Huh? In the northeast it's invariably pronounced /pi:nIs/. /I/ and /æ/ are phonetically close enough to be substitutable in the syllable "nas".
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- moocowduckquack 13y ago
  I'd pronounce PNAS with a hard a, like in ass, not like the end of penis, which has the i in kiss, so personally I don't find it that much of a homophone. Though I hate to think what that sentence has just done to you, given your sensitivity in such matters.
  - colanderman 13y ago
    Though I hate to think what that sentence has just done to you, given your sensitivity in such matters. Beside being unnecessarily snide, you missed my point, like, entirely. I don't give a rat's ass that it sounds like penis. But I couldn't say it in public without eliciting childish sniggers from whomever I'm trying to talk to.
    - moocowduckquack 13y ago
      Well, they have been managing fine since 1915, apparently without it hindering things all that much.