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They are both acronyms.
No. Acronyms are words, it's in the "nym" part. Initialisms where you pronounce each letter individually are not acronyms, since they ain't words.
Sorry, that’s not correct. Acronym is the word we use for both when it forms a word and for an initialism. They are all acronyms. Perhaps next you’ll tell me that decimate means reduce by ten percent?
Ah, the "language evolves" defence. How come everytime it evolves it's in the less useful direction?
@xeekei@lemmy.zip is right.
An acronym is a word formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a single word.
An abbreviation is a shortened version of a word or phrase used to save time and space, avoid repetition, or follow convention.
All acronyms are abbreviations, but not all abbreviations are acronyms.
SMH and ATM are both abbreviations. NASA, radar, laser etc. are all acronyms.
As I said, that is not correct. Language is how people use it, and people use the term acronym to describe all of these things. This is not a technical discussion.
If someone uses a screwdriver as a hammer, does that make the screwdriver a hammer because that's how a person used it?
SMH my head.
Ok, but you're still technically (and factually) wrong.