15:54 Oct 28, 2001 |
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4 +5 | General note on context |
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4 +1 | acro-nemesis: top competitor |
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5 | read: "acro-nemesis" |
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5 | acro-nemeses |
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4 | -esis is a suffix |
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4 -1 | acronymese |
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acronymese Explanation: Was it supposed to be "acronymese"? acronymese (n, adj) Text that contains many acronyms. Example: "Submit the WWW URL to your TCP/IP ISP to get a POP connection." is clearly acronymese. http://www.mindspring.com/~jimvb/nonword.htm Acronym Soup - a glossary of UAV acronymese; http://www.uavforum.com/library/library.htm Reference: http://www.mindspring.com/~jimvb/nonword.htm Reference: http://www.uavforum.com/library/library.htm |
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acro-nemesis: top competitor Explanation: It looks like a play on words. Acro-nemesis means top adversary (in this case, top competitor). It looks as though the writer wanted to play with words a bit. Both IBM and HP are better known by their acronyms than by their full names, so acro-nemesis was turned into acronym-esis. Cute...maybe. Fuad |
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25 mins confidence:
1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +5
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