Apronyms
Apronyms => Apronym Creation => Topic started by: Angela Brett on July 10, 2000, 12:34:15 AM
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Hi,
It's a great challenge to try acronymising every word on a particular topic - like the chemical elements and other topics covered in the acronym tours. If you feel like acronymising a list of words like that but can't think of a good topic to acronymise, or you can think of a topic but don't have the knowledge or inclination to tackle it yourself, how about using this forum. People can post ideas here about things to acronymise, and others might see the ideas and decide to try acronymising that topic.
If you can think of a few acronyms on a topic but not all of them, that's okay - other people might fill in the blanks. Also it doesn't matter if the same words are expanded twice. Here are some topics I thought of - if you think of any others, post them here and maybe it'll inspire someone to start acronymising.
US States
US presidents
Capital cities
Musical instruments
Items of clothing
Animals (or breeds of a particular species)
Plants (again, you could limit the list to a particular type of plant, like vegetables or trees)
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One well-defined, finite list which could be completely acronymised is the sports in the upcoming Olympics in Sydney.
There's an image at:
http://www.olympics.com/eng/sports/images/chooser.gif
which lists all the sports, which I found on this page:
http://www.olympics.com/eng/sports/home.html
If you go to that page you can click on parts of the image to get information on each sport.
Some sports have already been done, but you can acronymise them again if you like. Once they've all been acronymised I'll put up a tour of them.
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>>> On 10 July 2000 00:34:15 NZST, Angela Brett wrote:
> Musical instruments
One came to me suddently this evening, the rest just followed.....
BANJO
Basically A Noisy Jangly Object
PAINO
Pretty Ancient Invention, Noise Originator
CORNET
Can One Really Need Extra Trumpet-type-thing?
DRUM
Damned Rowdy & UnMusical!
PICCOLO
Principle Is Clear - Cover Over Little Openings
FLUTE
Flex Lips Until Tune Escapes
XYLOPHONE
Xmas-present Youngsters Least Often 'Preciate - Has Only Nerdy Exponents
LUTE
Lets User Twang Ecstatically
HARP
Hairs Are Rapidly Plucked
CASTANETS
Clacky And Staccato, These Are No-longer Exclusive To Spain
BAGPIPES
Big Army Guys Playing It Perhaps Epitomises Scotland
FIFE
Fingering Is Fairly Elaborate
BUGLE
Brassy Ululations Give Layabeds Early-morning-call
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>>> On 13 November 2001 00:55:59 UTC, Tony wrote:
PAINO
Pretty Ancient Invention, Noise Originator
then I replied:
Paino must be a particularly ancient spelling of piano which I'm not aware of.
I liked BAGPIPES the best. :)
Modern music is often created on computers - in fact that's a field in which I believe the Macintosh dominates.
MACINTOSH: Musical/Modern Artists' Cyber-Instrument - New Technology Of Sequencing Harmonies.
How about some more topics to acronymise? I know we tend to just acronymise things in a new thread and start a topic that way, but if there are topics which you think might inspire other people but which you have no acronyms for so far, mention them here.
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Angela wrote:
>Tony wrote:
>PAINO
>Pretty Ancient Invention, Noise Originator
then I replied:
Paino must be a particularly ancient spelling of piano which I'm not aware of.
I shall claim tiredness, as it was early morning when I 'created' that abomination!
PIANO
Played In All Nice Orchestras
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TRIANGLE
This Rattles If Agitated - Needs, Generally, Little Experience
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Euclid wrote:
> TRIANGLE
> This Rattles If Agitated - Needs, Generally, Little Experience
Ha ha - Well, if you're going to bringin non-musical instruments ;-)
TAMBOURINE
There's A Million Backingsingers Operating Useless Rattling Instruments - None Excel!
MARACAS
Merely Activate (w)Rist and Create A Shufflingsound
-- that's a bad one which needs repair
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So, is Euclid a newcomer, or one of us in disguise, like Trickertreat was?
>>> On 17 November 2001 17:55:47 UTC, Euclid wrote:
TRIANGLE
This Rattles If Agitated - Needs, Generally, Little Experience
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Angela wrote:
> So, is Euclid a newcomer, or one of us in disguise, like Trickertreat was?
It was Angela who acronymised all those 'famous' mathematicians ;-)
Actually Tony did Euclid - it was a pun on the fact that the acronym being expanded was "Triangle".
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VIRGIL:
Verily, I Really Generate Immense Literature.
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I thought so... stop trying to incriminate me by impersonating people I've expanded! :)
>>> On 23 November 2001 20:29:40 UTC, Pythagoras wrote:
Actually Tony did Euclid - it was a pun on the fact that the acronym being expanded was "Triangle".
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pointingthefinger@tony wrote:
> I thought so... stop trying to incriminate me by impersonating people I've expanded! :)
Don't you know that ITS RUDE TO POINT
It's Totally So Repulsive, Using Digit Extended Towards One Person's Objectional! It's Not Tactful
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Well, you missed out an APOSTROPHE!
A Pointer Of Syncopation, The Rightful Owner(s), Perh... "Hello, Entrant!"
(mixing two meanings of 'apostrophe' here ;)
>>> On 24 November 2001 00:00:59 UTC, Miss Manners wrote:
Don't you know that ITS RUDE TO POINT
It's Totally So Repulsive, Using Digit Extended Towards One Person's Objectional! It's Not Tactful
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>>> On 23 November 2001 21:02:21 UTC, Virgil wrote:
VIRGIL:
Verily, I Really Generate Immense Literature.
Quite the narcissist, eh Virgil?
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>>> On 24 November 2001 00:26:17 UTC, Angela wrote:
> Well, you missed out an APOSTROPHE!
>> Don't you know that ITS RUDE TO POINT
I didn't miss it out, it was purposely omitted on visual grounds.... it looked better without the apostrophe.
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It didnt look better to me it looked irritating because I knew there should be an apostrophe there I left out punctuation marks in this post because I didnt like the look of them the paragraph flows so much better without those pesky things
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Angela wrote:
> It didnt look better to me it looked irritating because I knew there should be an apostrophe there I left out punctuation marks in this post because I didnt like the look of them the paragraph flows so much better without those pesky things
Feeling a little grouchy today?
I'm sorry if I upset you, but I really did choose to omit the apostrophe.... put it back in if you wish!