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Newer page: version 11 Last edited on Sunday, June 25, 2006 11:53:25 pm by AristotlePagaltzis
Older page: version 7 Last edited on Sunday, August 10, 2003 5:25:49 pm by WikiAdmin Revert
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-An acronym that expands to it self . eg
+An acronym whose expansion includes itself. Eg .: 
  
-; [PINE]:[PINE] Is Not Elm  
-; [Wine]: [WINE|http://www.winehq.com] is not an [Emulator]  
-; [GNU]: [GNU] is Not [Unix]  
-; EINE: EINE Is Not EMACS  
-; ZWEI: ZWEI Was EINE Initially  
-; LIAR: Liar Imitates Apply Recursively  
-;[Cygnus] : [Cygnus ], Your [GNU] Support  
-;Emacs : Emacs Makes All Computers Slow[1]  
-; [Zinf|http://www.zinf.org]: Zinf Is Not [Freeamp|http://www.freeamp.org]  
-;LAME: LAME Ain't an [MP3] Encoder  
+[PINE]:  
+ [PINE] Is Not Elm  
+[Wine]:  
+ [WINE|http://www.winehq.com] is not an [Emulator]  
+[GNU]:  
+ [GNU]’s Not [Unix]  
+[Cygnus]:  
+ [Cygnus], Your [GNU] Support  
+Emacs:  
+ Escape Meta Alt Control Shift  
+ %%% or, Emacs Makes All Computers Slow  
+ %%% or, Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping (from the days when the common computer had one or two megabytes of [RAM])  
+ %%% or, Editing with MACroS  
+ EINE:  
+ EINE Is Not EMACS  
+ZWEI:  
+ ZWEI Was EINE Initially  
+LIAR:  
+ Liar Imitates Apply Recursively  
+LAME :  
+ LAME Ain't an [MP3 ] Encoder  
+Zinf :  
+ [Zinf|http://www.zinf.org] Is Not [Freeamp|http://www.freeamp.org] 
  
-For the ultimate in RecursiveAcronym' s see The [Hurd], a pair of mutually refering RecursiveAcronym' s! 
+For the ultimate in RecursiveAcronym~ s see [Hurd], a pair of mutually referring RecursiveAcronym~ s! 
  
-XINARA Is Not A Recursive Acronym. Perhaps it should be! (apparently it's a town on the Tinos Islands, off Greece)  
-  
- [PINARA|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/3/19/13910/0511] also isn't a Recursive acronym , but that's already been suggested on [kuro5hin|http://www.kuro5hin.org]. This was the only [[a -z ]inara I could find in a google search in this context.  
-  
-[1] or Editing with MACroS [2]  
-[2] or Escape Meta Alt Control Shift  
+Note that XINARA Is Not A Recursive Acronym. Perhaps it should be! (Apparently it's a town on the Tinos Islands, off Greece. ) [PINARA | http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/3/19/13910/0511] also isn't, but that's already been suggested on [kuro5hin|http://www.kuro5hin.org]. This was the only ~ [A -Z ]INARA I could find in a [Google] search in this context.