Timeline for Does this situation have a name?
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| Aug 6, 2011 at 21:41 | comment | added | Rikon | Haha... Of course... | |
| Aug 5, 2011 at 20:38 | comment | added | TRiG |
@Rikon. That's a standard geek in-joke: the recursive acronym. The most famous is probably GNU's Not Unix, but there's also PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor and a ton of others.
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| Aug 5, 2011 at 19:06 | vote | accept | Rikon | ||
| Aug 5, 2011 at 19:06 | comment | added | Rikon | I like that. It is definitely the closest thing I've seen. Admittedly, the same way Margaret -> Meg isn't totally pure, it looks like many of the examples in the wiki article also cheated. "EINE — EINE Is Not Emacs". I could do that with almost anything. But to your point, the definition fits pretty well! | |
| Aug 5, 2011 at 18:53 | history | answered | Dusty | CC BY-SA 3.0 |