{"id":5941,"date":"2016-12-18T10:38:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T10:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/18\/brixish\/"},"modified":"2016-12-18T10:38:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T10:38:25","slug":"brixish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/18\/brixish\/","title":{"rendered":"BRIXISH"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malcolm Pollack goes Dennis Prager one better<\/a>.  BRIXISH is indeed superior to SIXHIRB for Malcolm's reasons below, but also because it is in the vicinity of BREXIT.  After all, the BRIXISH would tend to support BREXIT.  Here's Malcolm:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Saw an unfamiliar acronym over at Maverick Philosopher<\/a> the the other day: \u201cSIXHIRB\u201d. I had to look it up. It\u2019s a coinage of Dennis Prager\u2019s, and it stands for Sexist, Intolerant, Xenophobic, Homophobic, Islamophobic, Racist, Bigoted: the \u201cbasket\u201d of cudgels routinely applied to anyone to the right of the Vox editorial staff.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019d have preferred \u201cBRIXISH\u201d: it sounds more like an adjective, and carries a faint echo of America\u2019s founding people and culture (i.e., the usual target). But it\u2019s still handy to have a linguistic shortcut for these reflexive and ubiquitous slurs, so here\u2019s a nod to Mr. Prager.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I am slightly surprised that Malcolm did not instantly recognize the Pragerian provenience of SIXHIRB inasmuch as every other time I have used it I have credited Prager.  I didn't this time to save keystrokes, figuring that everyone knew by now that it is Prager's coinage. <\/span><\/p>\n

Now for a pedantic punctilio.  SIXHIRB and BRIXISH are clearly acronyms by any reasonable definition, including the one I offer in Acronyms, Initialisms, and Truncations: Another Look<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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An acronym<\/strong> is a pronounceable word formed from either the initial letters of two or more words, or from contiguous letters of two or more words.  For example, 'laser' is a pronounceable word formed from the initial letters of the following words: light, amplification, stimulated, emission, radiation. And Gestapo<\/em> is a pronounceable word formed from contiguous letters of the following words: geheime<\/em>, Staats<\/em>, Polizei<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But what about BREXIT?  It is not an initialism or a truncation as I define these terms:<\/span><\/p>\n

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An initialism<\/strong> is a string of contiguous letters, unpronounceable as a word or else not in use as a word, but pronounceable as a list of letters, formed from the initial letters of two or more words.  For example, 'PBS' is an initialism that abbreviates 'Public Broadcasting System.'  'PBS' cannot be pronounced as a word, but it can be pronounced as a series of letters: Pee, Bee, Ess. 'IT' is an initialism that abbreviates "information technology.'  In this case 'IT' is pronounceable as a word, but is not in use as a word.  You can say, 'Mary works in Eye-Tee,' but not, 'Mary works in IT.' The same goes for 'ASU' which abbreviates 'Arizona State University.'<\/span><\/p>\n

A truncation<\/strong> is a term formed from a single word by shortening it.  'App,' for example is a truncation of 'application,' and 'ho' is presumably a truncation of 'whore' (in black idiom).  'Auto' is a truncation of 'automobile,' and 'blog' (noun) of 'weblog.'<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So I book BREXIT under acronym<\/em> despite its difference from the other two.  BREXIT fits my definition of 'acronym' inasmuch as it is a pronounceable word formed from contiguous letters of two or more words, in this case, 'Britain' and 'exit.'  The fact that all of the letters of 'exit' are packed into BREXIT does not stop the latter from being an acronym.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Malcolm Pollack goes Dennis Prager one better.  BRIXISH is indeed superior to SIXHIRB for Malcolm's reasons below, but also because it is in the vicinity of BREXIT.  After all, the BRIXISH would tend to support BREXIT.  Here's Malcolm: Saw an unfamiliar acronym over at Maverick Philosopher the the other day: \u201cSIXHIRB\u201d. I had to look … Continue reading “BRIXISH”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}