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#114350 10/24/03 03:15 PM
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in the ongoing acronym game, ASp whinges, "1. let's not use the acronym as a word in its expansion". I once conducted a search for a word to describe self-referential, multi-layered and/or recursive acronyms.

what can you guys come up with?


#114351 10/24/03 03:37 PM
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Or DADO=DADO And DADO Only


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SPIRAL - Special Projects In Recursive Acronym Logos



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(If one may slither into that shadowy netherworld of semantics...)

Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate
Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism


at least I don't bleat, I merely hissss


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I'm not looking for examples or an acronym which suggests
but an aptual word to describe... <sheesh>


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<sheesh>

What! You expect people here to attualŪ answer the question you asked?<talk aboutcher sheesh>


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i figured that if you hadn't found such a word, we were going to have to make one up! and what better than an acronym!
that'll teach me to be creative...





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#114357 10/24/03 04:46 PM
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How bout "recursive acronym"?

Another example FRL:

NEAR=Near Earth Asteroid Rendevous



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WINE = Wine Is Not an Emulator.


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WINE = Wine Is Not an Emulator

Put a CORK in it.



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Hofstadter's
Contracrostipunctus
Acrostically
Backwards
Spells
"J S BACH"

(Not to mention "GOD over Djinn")


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