DPutna17 said:
Anacortian said:
MMORPG (pronounced emmemmoharpeegee) is not an acronym.
Yahtzee usual treatment (pronounced memmorpegga) is.
To use another example: FBI (effbee-aye) is merely an abbreviation, but FBI (fbee) would be an acronym.
Nope. MMORPG is in fact an acronym which is a type of abbreviation. Memmorpegga is simply the phonetic way to pronounce the acronym and is not an abbreviation or acronym.
Incorrect, please read a dictionary.
"a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words"
Thus, when saying MMORPG as Yahtzee usually says it (as if it was one word), MMORPG is an acronym; when stating each letter in the series, it is but an abbreviation. If you are not pronouncing it the letters as if they were parts of a single word, it is not an acronym.
As pronounced
not pronounced asacronym---pronounced as acronym---abbreviation in question
effbee aye-----------------fby---------------------FBI
emmemmoharpeegee-----------memmorpegga-------------MMORPG
enayessay------------------nasa--------------------NASA
yewessay-------------------oosah-------------------USA
yewen----------------------un----------------------UN
araydee ayar---------------raydar------------------RADAR
see aye a------------------see a-------------------CIA
dee you eye----------------dooy--------------------DUI
emmayedeedee---------------mad---------------------MADD
(The above table looked better on the edit screen, but I cannot make it look good post post. Just assume that the hyphens separate columns and that the columns actually line-up with one another.)
So we see that (conventionally) NASA, RADAR, and MADD are acronyms; FBI, USA, UN, and CIA are not. DUI is often used both as an acronym and not. MMORPG is often used as an acronym by Yahtzee, but is not in the above-mentioned case, and is conventionally not.
