Apronyms
Apronyms => Apronym Creation => Topic started by: SmartiPants on October 18, 2001, 05:59:53 PM
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I need as many acronyms for "DSL" as you people can send me...
e-mail to ...@...
THANKS!!!!
:o)
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I'll post this here as well as to the email address...
I presume SmartiPants wants acronyms which have to do with the usual meaning of DSL, Digital Subscriber Line. However, I've just looked at http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=DSL&Find=Find to see that there are 24 'real' expansions of DSL, so together we can think of alternate expansions to suit all of them. I've only come up with alternate expansions for four of them so far:
These ones suit both Digital Subscriber Line and Direct Satellite Link:
Darned Speedy Link!
Download Something Large
And to go with Deep Submergence Laboratory:
Defying Sea-Level
As for Disability Sick Leave:
Don't Say 'Lame'!
>>> On 18 October 2001 04:59:53 UTC, SmartiPants wrote:
I need as many acronyms for "DSL" as you people can send me...
e-mail to ...@...
THANKS!!!!
:o)
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>>> On 18 October 2001 05:28:37 UTC, Angela Brett wrote:
I presume SmartiPants wants acronyms which have to do with .....
It would be a big help if people who would like acronyms created would give some background to their request.
Americans probably see DSL as: Dumb, Stupid Limey!
Ancient Greeks probably saw it as: Don't Speak Latin
1950s Private Eyes probably saw it as: Dangerously Shady Ladies
The Highway Patrol probably see it as: Drivers' Speed Limit
... I could go on.
I have a book which gives it as "District Scout Leader" and "Deep Scattering Layer" (apparetly an oceanographic term) These could be converted to
Domineer Suburban Lads
and
Detritus-filled Seabed Level
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>>> On 18 October 2001 07:56:47 UTC, Tony wrote:
... I could go on.
Don't Stop, Literator!
(There are so many other 'Don't Stop' possibilities... Don't Stop Laughing, Don't Stop Loving, in fact Don't Stop Living could even be an advertising slogan for Digital Subscriber Line)
I, too, would appreciate some background on this task. Why does SmartiPants want all these acronyms? What subject should they be on? We could easily churn out hundreds of DSLs on all Different Subjects... Limitless!
Devil's Sometimes Lucifer
Don't Saute Lychees
Donate Salubrious Livers
Dead Shall Lie
Dead = Stopped Living
Danger - Stabbing Likely!
Daffodils Smell Lovely
Darkness = Sans Light
Dear Sir, <Letter>
Another on the most common meaning of DSL:
Dialup's So Lame!
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Don't surf lightly
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Dunderheads Surf Loudly (in reference to loud dialup modems...no offense intended :) )
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>>> On 18 October 2001 10:30:54 UTC, Edwin Hermann wrote:
> Don't surf lightly
I am appalled at Edwin, he should know better! You must use capital letters for the words of an expansion
CAPITAL LETTERS PLEASE
Could All Participants Integrate Their Acronym Lettering. Let's Explain That This Eases Reading. Some People Leave Expansions Abyssmally Sloppily Executed!
DSL - down-sized lettering :-p
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Don't Start Lowercasing
nevertheless, we should BE NICE TO EDWIN, HE MADE THE FORUMS.
Berating Edwin's Not-In-Capitals Expansions? That's One Etiquette 'Don't'. We Implicitly Need His Expertise, Making A Dynamic Epistle-Trader. However, Expansions in Future Ought Really Use Maxi-Sizing.
Okay, so the end of that is awful... you're welcome to do it better.
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Berating Edwin's Not-In-Capitals Expansions? That's One Etiquette 'Don't'. We Implicitly Need His Expertise, Making A Dynamic Epistle-Trader. However, Expansions in Future Oughtabe Right Acronymically.
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Or perhaps, to be more specific than 'Right Acronymically', somthing with Oughtabe Rightly Uppercased (and then M and S words)
>>> On 19 October 2001 03:28:32 UTC, Jeff Anonymous wrote:
Berating Edwin's Not-In-Capitals Expansions? That's One Etiquette 'Don't'. We Implicitly Need His Expertise, Making A Dynamic Epistle-Trader. However, Expansions in Future Oughtabe Right Acronymically.
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>>> On 18 October 2001 22:58:12 UTC, Angela wrote:
> BE NICE TO EDWIN, HE MADE THE FORUMS.
Berating Edwin's Not-In-Capitals Expansions? That's One Etiquette 'Don't'. We Implicitly Need His Expertise, Making A Dynamic Epistle-Trader. However, Expansions in Future Ought Really Use Majuscule Starters
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Ooh, Majuscule... that's the perfect word! I like this version best, but I'll put in Jeff's as well as a modification of it.
>>> On 19 October 2001 06:19:06 UTC, Tony wrote:
> BE NICE TO EDWIN, HE MADE THE FORUMS.
Berating Edwin's Not-In-Capitals Expansions? That's One Etiquette 'Don't'. We Implicitly Need His Expertise, Making A Dynamic Epistle-Trader. However, Expansions in Future Ought Really Use Majuscule Starters
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Angela wrote:
> Ooh, Majuscule... that's the perfect word!
:-) Would you expect ME to use anything less than the perfect word?
Master Expander! :-)
- this expansion is not to go any further, not to the stack, nor to the weeklyish bulletin, nor anywhere!
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>>> On 19 October 2001 08:43:51 UTC, Tony McCoy O'Grady wrote:
- this expansion is not to go any further, not to the stack, nor to the weeklyish bulletin, nor anywhere!
Awww... are you afraid people will label you Mr. Ego? (Hmm, actually My Ego would almost be a stackworthy definition of ME)
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Angela wrote:
> Awww... are you afraid people will label you Mr. Ego?
YUP - You're Unusually Perceptive! ;-)
> (Hmm, actually My Ego would almost be a stackworthy definition of ME)
If ME = My Ego, Then I = Id & YOU = You're Obviously Unreal
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See ACRONYMS(12) and ACRONYMS(13).
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>>> On 19 October 2001 16:58:02 UTC, Jeff Anonymous wrote:
> See ACRONYMS(12) and ACRONYMS(13).
Why?
ACRONYMS (12)
A Collection, Realistically, Of Nutters. Youthful? Maybe So!
ACRONYMS (13)
Any Contributors Really Ought Never Yell, 'Me Sane!'
What's in there which caught your attention?
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I think Jeff was reminding us that we're NUTTERS.
Not Unlikely To Try Expanding Ridiculous Stuff
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Correct. ACRONYMISTS usually are nutters. Quoth Tony, "Expand It. Explain It. Observe." :)
All Crazy, Raunchy, Oxygen-blowing Nutters Yip Madly In Some Terrible Situations.
--Jeff Anonymous, who is perhaps alluding to the WTC and similar acronyms...or maybe he just expanded ACRONYMISTS at 10:40 PM.
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>>> On 18 October 2001 04:59:53 UTC, SmartiPants wrote:
I need as many acronyms for "DSL" as you people can send me...
e-mail to robin@megalink.net
THANKS!!!!
:o)
Is SMARTIPANTS still out there?
'Submit Multiple Acronyms Readiy Thanks' I Posted ..... And Now Turned Silent
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>>> On 20 October 2001 23:22:51 UTC, Tony should have written:
Is SMARTIPANTS still out there?
'Submit Multiple Acronyms Readily, Thanks.' I Posted ..... And Now Turned Silent