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Old 02-19-2009, 07:21 PM   #16
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SNAFU is an acronym. Does that make it a word since we use it like a word? If so, there are a multitude of acronyms around. Just ask someone who is in the military, works in the medical field or the Government.

How about USDoJ - US Department of Justice? Of course that's a proper noun isn't it?
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Old 02-19-2009, 09:30 PM   #17
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SNAFU is an acronym. Does that make it a word since we use it like a word? If so, there are a multitude of acronyms around. Just ask someone who is in the military, works in the medical field or the Government.

How about USDoJ - US Department of Justice? Of course that's a proper noun isn't it?
What's does the acronym stand for? Maybe I shouldn't ask...
Scuba is an acronym that's used as a word, isn't it?
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Old 02-19-2009, 09:42 PM   #18
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SNAFU is an acronym. Does that make it a word since we use it like a word? If so, there are a multitude of acronyms around. Just ask someone who is in the military, works in the medical field or the Government.
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What's does the acronym stand for? Maybe I shouldn't ask...
SNAFU = Situation Normal, All Fouled Up

You can use your favorite 'f' word instead.

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Scuba is an acronym that's used as a word, isn't it?
SCUBA = Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Aparatus
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Old 02-19-2009, 10:01 PM   #19
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SNAFU = Situation Normal, All Fouled Up

You can use your favorite 'f' word instead.


SCUBA = Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Aparatus
Thanks! I didn't know that about "SNAFU". It makes perfect sense now!
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Old 02-20-2009, 09:57 AM   #20
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My 10 year-old daughter and I were playing a game where you start with a word (5 letters or longer and not allowing proper nouns) and the next person has to follow with a word that begins with the last letter of the previous word.

About 100 words later, we were stumped, as we were trying to end up using every letter of the alphabet. But we couldn't come up with any words within the guidelines that ended in "j, q, u or v". Could you help us out?

jungle
juxtaposition
query
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uncle
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Old 02-20-2009, 10:06 AM   #21
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I think the idea is that they have to end with the letter, Geoff.

What about "hajj" -- the pilgimage to Mecca made by observant Muslims?
I can't think of another word ending in J. But, alas, it's only four letters.
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Old 02-20-2009, 10:13 AM   #22
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Old 02-20-2009, 10:22 AM   #23
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You can use your favorite 'f' word instead.
heehee ! i love that. i must start using "snafu" more. funny word, funny meaning.
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Old 02-20-2009, 11:11 AM   #24
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heehee ! i love that. i must start using "snafu" more. funny word, funny meaning.
It's from US Military, circa WWII. And the stronger F word is the "proper" usage. The next level of disaster is FUBAR. (F)ouled (U)p (B)eyond (A)ll (R)ecognition. And yes, the same F word applies.

The most current disaster phrase from our military is ClusterF***, dating from late Vietnam at the earliest, and heavy usage in the first Gulf War. It is based on leveling a large area with an artillery (or dropped bomb) that flys apart into hundreds of smaller sub-bombs, all of which go off at the same time.

Usages - SNAFU is a general grumble, about something gone wrong that might get fixed.

FUBAR is about something in which there is little hope of fixing.

and

ClusterF*** is a situtation with no hope of understanding or any way to fix.

If you talk with a retired legionarre, you might find the French equivalent terms...
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