Thread: new acronym proposal? "fresh from the hone" -- FFTH

I always just omit the www. The way DNS works, you very rarely need it.
Acronyms are neutral in my book, but it's always fun to try and pronounce the ones without any vowels as words

I skip the "www" & ".com". You can just type, for example, "straightrazorplace" in the browser & hit control-enter. You can also call the www "tri-dub"

I remember the late night comedian David Letterman explaining how to reach the network's webpage. More or less: "Just open up your doublya doublya doublya, there, and type in, uh, doublya doublya doublya doublya dot NBC dot, uh, com or what-have-you, and if that doesn't work, just add on some more doublyas."

Actually, FFTH is an abbreviation not an acronym.

Hal

Originally Posted by halwilson

Actually, FFTH is an abbreviation not an acronym.

Nope. Or at least, that's not a useful distinction, as an acronym is a subcategory of abbreviation.

An abbreviation is a neologism that creates a shorter form of some longer word or phrase. For example, "str8" would be a popular abbreviation for the phrase "straight razor".

An acronym is, clearly, an abbreviation, because it takes a phrase and makes it shorter and more memorable. However, it does so through a very specific mechanism: it takes the first letter or letters from the major words of a compound phrase and combines them into a new word. In most cases, this word is also a neologism in that it doesn't usually form an acronymic word that's also a normal word.

Laser, formerly LASER, is an acronym: Light Amplification through Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Similarly, CIA: Central Intelligence Agency.

FFTH is clearly an acronym and not merely an abbreviation because it draws its meaning from the initial letters of "Fresh From The Hone".

Originally Posted by piper

Nope. Or at least, that's not a useful distinction, as an acronym is a subcategory of abbreviation.

An abbreviation is a neologism that creates a shorter form of some longer word or phrase. For example, "str8" would be a popular abbreviation for the phrase "straight razor".

An acronym is, clearly, an abbreviation, because it takes a phrase and makes it shorter and more memorable. However, it does so through a very specific mechanism: it takes the first letter or letters from the major words of a compound phrase and combines them into a new word. In most cases, this word is also a neologism in that it doesn't usually form an acronymic word that's also a normal word.

Laser, formerly LASER, is an acronym: Light Amplification through Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Similarly, CIA: Central Intelligence Agency.

FFTH is clearly an acronym and not merely an abbreviation because it draws its meaning from the initial letters of "Fresh From The Hone".

Yeah. What he said!

Originally Posted by halwilson

Actually, FFTH is an abbreviation not an acronym.

Hal

Hal,

Good point, and good catch! I hadn't thought of it. SO, to make this an acronym, the conversation would have to go like this?

"My razor is sharper than yours!"

"Is not!"

"Is, too!"

"Is not!"

"Is, too!"

<putting thumbs in ears, wriggling fingers and sticking out tongue> "FFTH"!

RT

Originally Posted by xman

That would be HFFT.
/not that kind of geek

X

haha, FFTH just follows convention...hyperbolic sine and hyperbolic cosine are abbreviated sinh and cosh respectively...

Anyway, let's put an end to this tangent

Originally Posted by Quatsch

haha, FFTH just follows convention...hyperbolic sine and hyperbolic cosine are abbreviated sinh and cosh respectively...

Told you I wasn't that kind of geek. BTW, IMHO it's an acronym.

X

Well as my Dad used to say, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. lol...

Hal