What I want to know is how Banksy got it back after it was noticed on display in 2005. Did the museum give it back or sell it or just throw it away? Something had to happen in order for Bansky to loan it back to the museum over a decade later.
Right? Two species are worshiping an ancient monolith, and the cows think our methods of worship are weird too.
Dog’s like “Why’d you do this to me?”
How’d you do this from Mastadon?
Somehow I didn’t get the notification of your comment until now, but this rules. No one could possibly do that better than Jack Black.
If you could, it would be the kind of cat that Wes Anderson would make a movie about.
Hush little kitty, don’t say a word…
That pink nose is the cutest.
Spoiler alert: they spill the glass everywhere.
*Some of Wikipedia’s editors.
If it were all of them, then the main wiki entry for acronym would not be allowed to stay the way it is. The main article I linked even speaks to the fact that some users of “initialism” think that it is separate from acronyms, so there is definitely still some significant debate. And to add to it, I looked up the words in the three most popular dictionaries:
Oxford dictionary lists both initialisms and pronounceable abbreviations as two separate definitions of acronym, so according to them, all initialisms are a form of acronym, matching my inclusivity.
Cambridge dictionary has acronym and initialism listed as unconnected entities with separate definitions that do not mention one another, so there is no confirmation of inclusivity either way there.
Merriam-Webster dictionary defines initialism as any first letter abbreviation, acknowledges the debate, and claims that initialism is the older word, but it also says that pronounceable initialisms are commonly referred to as acronyms, so their definition more lines up better to your inclusivity rather than mine.
So it seems like possibly one or both of us is right or neither of us is. Isn’t the ambiguity of the English language fun?
If I walk around, then human see me. This way more sneaky, what could go wrong?
You’re right that it is an initialism, but you’ve got the inclusivity backwards. Initialisms are acronyms that are not pronounceable, but they are still acronyms whether or not they are pronounced. You did get me questioning my own memory, so I looked it up to double check:
From Wikipedia:
Sometimes, initialism or alphabetism is used to refer to acronyms formed from the string of initials which are usually pronounced as individual letters, as in the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation).
You could just say “Ex-En-Ay” without it ceasing to be an acronym.
That’s what it originally meant, but it was retconned to be a recursive acronym similar to GNU - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
No more traveling than a typical NBA game.
I love how proper and classy her posture is. That tail curled around her front paws is perfectly statuesque.
What a shame that it’s all months past the Sept/Oct 2023 best buy dates. I hope they weren’t selling it.
I’ve seen cows that are colored like all three of those cats.
Wow, I remember hearing of Wolfman Jack many years ago as a DJ but don’t think I ever saw him before now. Thanks for that info.
But that’s a huge downside to most people.