Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Aug 2, 2006, at 7:57 PM, Rick Neal wrote:
Hi John,
It means Digital Audio Workstation. You're right about SMF. What gets
me is when people use acronyms for song titles like IDMATIIAGTS (It
Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing)
IDMATIIAGTS is not an acronym, as it is unpronounceable. Neither, for
whatever it may be worth, is SMF--unless there are actually people out
there saying "sumpf."
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
Hmm... According to the self-contradictory dictionary.com, Andrew is
right, but so is Rick, in a sense:
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ac·ro·nym Audio pronunciation of "acronym"
<https://secure.reference.com/premium/login.html?rd=2&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdictionary.reference.com%2Fbrowse%2Facronym>()
P Pronunciation Key
<http://dictionary.reference.com/help/ahd4/pronkey.html> (kr-nm) n.
A word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for
Women's Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a
series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging.
...
See also TLA <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=tla>. ...
Three-Letter Acronym
<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=three-letter%20acronym>
...
/T-L-A/ n. [Three-Letter Acronym] 1. Self-describing
abbreviation for a species with which computing terminology is
infested. 2. Any confusing acronym. Examples include MCA, FTP,
SNA, CPU, MMU, SCCS, DMU, FPU, NNTP, TLA. People who like this
looser usage argue that not all TLAs have three letters, just as not
all four-letter words have four letters. One also hears of `ETLA'
(Extended Three-Letter Acronym, pronounced /ee tee el ay/) being
used to describe four-letter acronyms. The term `SFLA' (Stupid
Four-Letter Acronym) has also been reported. See also YABA
<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=yaba>.
The self-effacing phrase "TDM TLA" (Too Damn Many...) is often
used to bemoan the plethora of TLAs in use. In 1989, a random of
the journalistic persuasion asked hacker Paul Boutin "What do you
think will be the biggest problem in computing in the 90s?" Paul's
straight-faced response: "There are only 17,000 three-letter
acronyms." (To be exact, there are 26^3 = 17,576.) ...
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Hope this clears it up!
Raymond Horton
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