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Alternate Shot Acronyms and Etiquette

• PaulTon 10,731 Posts

  Fri, Oct 30 2015 9:24 AM

  hakman123:

  I'll get down off my Nerdy Soap Box now.

  Good post though and you're right. Saved me the bother.

  One question, ASCII, a word? Is it pronounced askye or askee?  Wii want to know.

• ct690911 7,205 Posts

  Fri, Oct 30 2015 10:17 AM

  " It is only an acronym - if the initials make up a word that is then used in normal conversation."

  Acronym :  "an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word, i.e. NASA"

  yup...he's absolutely correct....:)

  ct

• Yiannis1970 3,328 Posts

  Fri, Oct 30 2015 11:07 AM

  Alternate shot game and match plays are the essence of wgt for me. I get so much bored to hit single rounds. Don't care about the tiers or the number of ranked rounds. If i have some time to dedicate to this game, i always play alt matches or mps. Love the company and the competition with a true opponent. When i play alone, i always lose concentration and i can't see the time to finish the round. In mps or alts instead, i have fun and play so much better.

• alosso 21,083 Posts

  Fri, Oct 30 2015 12:40 PM

  PaulTon:

  One question, ASCII, a word? Is it pronounced askye or askee?

  Certainly not A-S-C-I-I. Askee for me.

  PaulTon:

  Wii want to know.

  Wii is OT - an artificial word. *grins*

• MichaelStroke 2,066 Posts

  Fri, Oct 30 2015 3:13 PM

  When your opponent makes a long eagle putt, the proper response is to say "giant furry yak", but you can probably abbreviate it to GFY.

• ct690911 7,205 Posts

  Fri, Oct 30 2015 3:35 PM

  MichaelStroke:

  When your opponent makes a long eagle putt, the proper response is to say "giant furry yak", but you can probably abbreviate it to GFY.

  which, as we learned earlier in a different string, is not an acronym...:)

• MichaelStroke 2,066 Posts

  Fri, Oct 30 2015 3:36 PM

  ct690911:

  MichaelStroke:

  When your opponent makes a long eagle putt, the proper response is to say "giant furry yak", but you can probably abbreviate it to GFY.

  which, as we learned earlier in a different string, is not an acronym...:)

   

  Not "we".  This is brand new information to me.

• ct690911 7,205 Posts

  Fri, Oct 30 2015 3:49 PM

  soz Mike...that was the "Royal" we....meaning "I or me" ....Canucks are still part of the Commonwealth...lol

  ct

• PaulTon 10,731 Posts

  Fri, Oct 30 2015 3:51 PM

  ct690911:

  which, as we learned earlier in a different string, is not an acronym...:)

  No, wii learned it earlier from this very thread.

  (do it again and I'll string you up)   ;)

• ct690911 7,205 Posts

  Fri, Oct 30 2015 5:03 PM

  PaulTon:

  ct690911:

  which, as we learned earlier in a different string, is not an acronym...:)

  No, wii learned it earlier from this very thread.

  (do it again and I'll string you up)   ;)

  Ahhh...you are correct again, sir....it was this thread...I answer so many, I sometimes forget where I learned what...actually, there were two concurrent threads both entitled "alternate shots"...it was earlier and I was sober...hopefully someone else noticed also. 

  Confusion rules the day....:)

  ct