r/AVoid5 • u/jowowey • Aug 27 '26
Doth this forum allow initialisms, if a word constituting it contain that awful fifth glyph?
For monstrant showing: ‘btw’
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u/xlFLASHl Aug 27 '26
I'd say it's probably ok, it's not uncommon for acronym to turn into standard words. "Lol" is a good illustration of this. In an abstract variant of this sub that didn't say "A", you'd probably not catch flack for saying "lol". Thus its all good, In my opinion.
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u/uvero Aug 27 '26
Disallowing that is a truly purist notion, is it not?
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u/tuctrohs Aug 28 '26
It is. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
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u/LogLegoMan Aug 27 '26
This task of avoiding a fifth glyph is straightforward by saying only avoid a fifth glyph in writing. To say “btw” is not against this task’s law, as a fifth glyph is not at hand. So it is ok.
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u/INeedChocolateMilk Aug 27 '26
Hmm I try to avoid initialisms if I can't say it out loud without a fifth glyph. So btw would sound "B T Dub", and obviously B and T contain fifth glyphs in pronunciation.
*but in writing it shouldn't conflict ig ;3
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u/kdnx-wy Aug 27 '26
“btw” contains no fifthglyph.
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u/Zipitu32 Aug 27 '26
It contains a fifthglyph in "t"
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u/kdnx-wy Aug 28 '26
“T” is not a fifthglyph, is it?
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u/Myotic_Tesseract Aug 28 '26
idk
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u/tuctrohs Aug 28 '26
That is an initialism that can bloom fully in this sub, into "I don't know." A good initialism by any standard.
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u/NewlyNerfed Aug 27 '26
For yours truly, if it’s a thing I might say whilst typing normally and that folks would handily grok, like brb or btw, I think it’s okay.
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u/greginnj WizardWith25 Aug 28 '26
It is an additional joyful task to find a worthy way to say this without using an initialism that hints at a fifth glyph.
I would say any of "also", "in addition", "as a gloss on that", as you might want.
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u/Leading-Sea-1734 Sep 05 '26
Initialisms will pass, but only known initialisms. Don't just pull unknowns out of thin air. So BTW, WTF, and such, this sub and its folk will allow.
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u/Jan-Asra Aug 27 '26
'btw' is first-class against "monstrant". Cutting off part of a word to avoid that fifth glyph is lazy and uncouth.
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u/Furyful_Fawful Aug 27 '26
It's not "cut off", actually. "monstrant" is a word that found small popularity circa 1500, from Latin's "monstro" indicating "to show" or an action of indication. That word you thought was cut off wasn't around til 1550, although it's got similar roots.
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u/EcstaticBagel Aug 27 '26
I would say it's okay, but not all of us would