GNRA is Not a Recursive Acronym!
in address to tims suggestion, what, then, are the etymological requirements for a recursive acronym?
obviously, the first word is also its acronym, but does it need to end in a negator of another option- ie, "TNC Not Cars!" - ?
or can it simply be a collection of the first letters of a statement, where the subject is the acronym? ie, "_____ Ride For Odins Service!" would become "_RFOS Ride For Odins Service!", where the first letter (the blank) would be one of our choosing?
(inset image is the logo-beast of the GNU peoples.)
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isn't it just any acronym in which one of the letters (not necessarily the first, either) stands for the acronym itself? Man I wish I could remember this funny one in Berkeley...it's a fake Apple store...I think it was like M.A.C. standing for "MAC Apple Computers." Wait. That's a real one. Shit. No! It's not. Crap I don't know.
give me an example of a recursive acronym where the its not the first letter that stands for itself, im having a hard time imagining this... (you can make it up) would it be like "SNAPLEZ: Sexy Nude APLE Zone!" err... no thats not recursive...
like this? "SELSI: Salient Environment Level SELSI Interface." ? it would seem, then, that it requires the first letter of the acronym to appear again in the string.
oops I deleted it. Anyway, I think that's right--the first letter just needs to appear again in the string, like your SELSI example. Don't think I've ever seen one like that though.
If the first letter is duplicated elsewhere in the acronym, you can construct it like that.
=v= What a trip. Not only did I dabble in GNU back in the day, I'm a cofounder of Trees Not Cars in San Francisco. Trying to wrap my head around "TNC Not Cars" ...
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