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This reminds me on the recursive XNA acronym which stands for “XNA’s not acronymed”.

by patze 3y ago

susam 3y ago
Nice one! Thanks for sharing! One of my most favourite recursive acronyms is XINU which stands for "XINU Is Not Unix". The delightful thing about this acronym is that "XINU" is also the reverse of "UNIX". Upon a closer look, it turns out that for a given word W, a recursive acronym proclaiming that it is not W while simultaneously being the reverse of the word W, we need W to be of the form W = "?NI?" where each "?" denotes a distinct letter. Some fictitious examples: * ANIL ⇒ LINA = LINA Is Not ANIL. * KNIT ⇒ TINK = TINK Is Not KNIT. Words of the form "?N?" also work if we are happy with a contracted "is" in the acronym. In fact we can get circular recursive acronyms in such cases: * ANI = ANI's Not INA ⇔ INA = INA's Not ANI. * ONE = ONE's Not ENO ⇔ ENO = ENO's Not ONE. Both acronyms in each pair refer to each other thus making them circular while also being the reverse of each other! These could be useful names to express friendly banter between rival projects.
- phinnaeus 3y ago
  How about the classic "I'm So Meta, Even This Acronym..." ?
  - susam 3y ago
    Wow! I was an avid reader of the XKCD comics about 15 years or so ago but I somehow missed this one. For others who are wondering what this is, here's the link to the relevant XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/917/ https://xkcd.com/917/ What is so clever about this phrase is that it naturally completes to a full sentence that contains itself as an acronym! I'm So Meta, Even This Acronym IS META! A wonderful tribute to Hofstader's books that are full of such fascinating self-references.
    - lupire 3y ago
      That's Acronymiquine.
- NocturnalWaffle 3y ago
  Ah, good ol'e Dr Comer. Back in school I worked on a project rewriting XINU in Rust. It was quite difficult in the early days of Rust, but it was a fun project to get insight into how XINU worked.
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mbork_pl 3y ago
Also, EINE = EINE Is Not Emacs, and its successor ZWEI = ZWEI Was Eine Initially.
lordchair 3y ago
Or GNU which is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix!" source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU#Name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU#Name

This reminds me on the recursive XNA acronym which stands for “XNA’s not acronymed”.

by patze 3y ago

This reminds me on the recursive XNA acronym which stands for “XNA’s not acronymed”.

Nice one! Thanks for sharing! One of my most favourite recursive acronyms is XINU which stands for "XINU Is Not Unix". The delightful thing about this acronym is that "XINU" is also the reverse of "UNIX". Upon a closer look, it turns out that for a given word W, a recursive acronym proclaiming that it is not W while simultaneously being the reverse of the word W, we need W to be of the form W = "?NI?" where each "?" denotes a distinct letter. Some fictitious examples: * ANIL ⇒ LINA = LINA Is Not ANIL. * KNIT ⇒ TINK = TINK Is Not KNIT. Words of the form "?N?" also work if we are happy with a contracted "is" in the acronym. In fact we can get circular recursive acronyms in such cases: * ANI = ANI's Not INA ⇔ INA = INA's Not ANI. * ONE = ONE's Not ENO ⇔ ENO = ENO's Not ONE. Both acronyms in each pair refer to each other thus making them circular while also being the reverse of each other! These could be useful names to express friendly banter between rival projects.

phinnaeus 3y ago
How about the classic "I'm So Meta, Even This Acronym..." ?
- susam 3y ago
  Wow! I was an avid reader of the XKCD comics about 15 years or so ago but I somehow missed this one. For others who are wondering what this is, here's the link to the relevant XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/917/ https://xkcd.com/917/ What is so clever about this phrase is that it naturally completes to a full sentence that contains itself as an acronym! I'm So Meta, Even This Acronym IS META! A wonderful tribute to Hofstader's books that are full of such fascinating self-references.
  - lupire 3y ago
    That's Acronymiquine.
NocturnalWaffle 3y ago
Ah, good ol'e Dr Comer. Back in school I worked on a project rewriting XINU in Rust. It was quite difficult in the early days of Rust, but it was a fun project to get insight into how XINU worked.
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mbork_pl 3y ago

Also, EINE = EINE Is Not Emacs, and its successor ZWEI = ZWEI Was Eine Initially.

lordchair 3y ago

Or GNU which is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix!" source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU#Name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU#Name