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RE: Defining "NT"

a8 Wrote:

Alias Pseudonym Wrote:
Neurotypical, as in one not possessing a deviant neurotype.  Anyone with a PPD or abnormally high or low intelligence (or a learning disorder?) is not a Neurotypical.

Aha, thanks, I've never even used such an acronym.


It's not an acronym, it's an initialism, unless you pronounce "nt" as a single syllable, like the end of "runt" or "hunt" or "hint".  But if you sound out the name of each letter, then it is not an acronym--it is an initialism.

Why are so many people so sadly ignorant of this difference?

It's as bad as people calling their grandchildren "ancestors"--which I come across all the time.

05-09-2008 08:51 PM
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Defining "NT" - a8 - 04-28-2008, 05:16 AM
RE: Defining "NT" - Alias Pseudonym - 04-28-2008, 05:19 AM
RE: Defining "NT" - a8 - 04-28-2008, 05:21 AM
RE: Defining "NT" - DogBrain - 05-09-2008 08:51 PM
RE: Defining "NT" - Alias Pseudonym - 04-28-2008, 05:20 AM
RE: Defining "NT" - a8 - 04-28-2008, 05:30 AM
RE: Defining "NT" - earthmonkey - 04-28-2008, 05:39 AM
RE: Defining "NT" - RavenFeather - 04-28-2008, 06:32 AM
RE: Defining "NT" - outsideL00kinN - 04-28-2008, 07:00 AM
RE: Defining "NT" - outsideL00kinN - 04-28-2008, 07:10 AM
RE: Defining "NT" - The Stig - 05-09-2008, 07:41 PM
RE: Defining "NT" - windy - 05-09-2008, 08:17 PM
RE: Defining "NT" - Wilhemina - 05-09-2008, 08:39 PM
RE: Defining "NT" - ocampo - 05-09-2008, 08:45 PM
RE: Defining "NT" - EvilZakkie - 05-09-2008, 10:05 PM
RE: Defining "NT" - Shnoing - 05-09-2008, 10:42 PM
RE: Defining "NT" - ocampo - 05-09-2008, 10:45 PM
RE: Defining "NT" - DogBrain - 05-09-2008, 08:54 PM
RE: Defining "NT" - GnosisRoads - 05-10-2008, 06:05 AM
RE: Defining "NT" - windy - 05-09-2008, 09:06 PM
RE: Defining "NT" - DogBrain - 05-10-2008, 02:49 PM
RE: Defining "NT" - outsideL00kinN - 05-10-2008, 09:25 PM
RE: Defining "NT" - windy - 05-11-2008, 01:08 AM

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