But if it's known as the 'Ra, that would definitely put it under the category of "acronym", yes? At least enough to make Steve happy
Nope. That's just a colloquialism, or even a nickname. The full set of initials is not represented so it can hardly be an acronym for the Irish Republican Army. You Americans seem to want everything you can lay your hands on to be an acronym. "'Ra" is no more an acronym than "Beeb." Here's one for you Merkins to ponder about: CD-ROM.
It should at least get partial credit...you pronounce 2/3s of it. So it's a partial acronym. Maybe?
And I've heard a lot of accusations thrown at us Americans, but wanting everything we lay our hands on to be an acronym is a new one
Someday, everything is gonna be diff'rent
When I paint my masterpiece.
But if it's known as the 'Ra, that would definitely put it under the category of "acronym", yes? At least enough to make Steve happy
Nope. That's just a colloquialism, or even a nickname. The full set of initials is not represented so it can hardly be an acronym for the Irish Republican Army. You Americans seem to want everything you can lay your hands on to be an acronym. "'Ra" is no more an acronym than "Beeb." Here's one for you Merkins to ponder about: CD-ROM.
It should at least get partial credit...you pronounce 2/3s of it. So it's a partial acronym. Maybe?
And I've heard a lot of accusations thrown at us Americans, but wanting everything we lay our hands on to be an acronym is a new one
I had a seriously bad offlist row with a fellow on C&F a few years ago after I'd berated him for employing "W T F" in a quite uncalled-for manner in a thread about Willie Clancy in the ITM forum. (I note that this expletive is no longer allowed here in unadorned form! ) He PMed me to say that W T F was a very common acronym on the internet and he didn't know why I'd taken offence. Well, I had some fun there, as you can imagine.
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
SteveShaw wrote:I had a seriously bad offlist row with a fellow on C&F a few years ago after I'd berated him for employing "W T F" in a quite uncalled-for manner in a thread about Willie Clancy in the ITM forum. (I note that this expletive is no longer allowed here in unadorned form! ) He PMed me to say that W T F was a very common acronym on the internet and he didn't know why I'd taken offence. Well, I had some fun there, as you can imagine.
You spelled offense incorrectly, Steve. We Americans corrected that spelling awhile back.
Steamwalker wrote:You spelled offense incorrectly, Steve. We Americans corrected that spelling awhile back.
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
Infernaltootler wrote:I noticed that even Homer Simpson has used wanker in the show, demonstrating the igorance of programme makers of this term for a masturbator.
Tell us something.: A long time chatty Chiffer but have been absent for almost two decades. Returned in 2022 and still recognize some names! I also play anglo concertina now.
This amazingly hilarious post appeared on a harmonica forum a few years ago. The poster was an American fellow who, as ensuing correspondence revealed, had no idea of the use to which the Brits put the word in question.
With the students that I have, I try to teach them to play with intentions. I consider a player (of any instrument) to be wanker/wanking when he/she plays notes without intent. Playing notes for the sake of playing notes is wanking in my book. If you don't know what to play then don't play, there is nothing wrong with space.
In my experience, harmonica players are amoung the worst at wanking. Just because you can make a bit of noise or even be able to play a few runs on an instrument doesn't make you a player of that instrument nor does it make you a musician.
I've been playing the electric bass lately and I can play some seriously cool and complex stuff on it but I am not a bass player. I wouldn't even go out and play a blues gig right now. As far as the bass goes, I'm just a wanker with little concept of where to fit in the cool stuff I can play.
Everybody goes through a wanking period as they evolve into a real player. And as the player matures the wankiness goes away and intention begins to surface. There is also a point where an advanced players gets bored with playing intentfully and then turns back to the chaos that is wankerdom. I won't name the players I have in mind but it's during the wankiness that one tends to lose the audience. In music, it's the height of arrogance and egoism when once stands there and thinks the audience wants to hear waves of sh*t spewing from an instrument.
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
That use is the UK defition, used as a metaphor. It's quite common in NA. It might be so common that this speaker doesn't understand that this is a figure of speech rather than the name of something, but it's derivation from what you're calling the UK term is direct.
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
Hell, I knew what it meant the first time I heard it. No one had to tell me. I heard it from some British punk musician on a radio interview about his views on U.S. punk musicians, and he drew the word out in a smarmy way that made me want to reach through the radio and smack him upside his safety-pinned little head. The accent didn't help his case, either.
"If you take music out of this world, you will have nothing but a ball of fire." - Balochi musician
Nanohedron wrote:Hell, I knew what it meant the first time I heard it.
That's because it's onomatopoeia. Oh dear ...
Sez you.
Nah, it's kinda hard to miss the meaning when a self-inflated little git lavishly drawls, "They're oll a bonch of bleddy waayngkaaaaahs." Sneery rising tone from "W" to "NG", and falling from "K" to "S".
Gotta love intelligent discourse.
"If you take music out of this world, you will have nothing but a ball of fire." - Balochi musician
I concede defeat.
