Sith Lord Vader next GL?

"NicWester;c-2275863" wrote:

"flux_rono;c-2275855" wrote:

"Starslayer;c-2275636" wrote:

"DarjeloSalas;c-2275593" wrote:

"Bladegunner;c-2275576" wrote:
Shows what's wrong with the world these days everyone is obsessed with acronyms. Whatever happened to calling him Master Kenobi...

It’s all about time efficiency. Think of the time that forumers obsessed with the adoption a standardised acronym system save! Probably less time than it takes them to post their objections to acronyms of which they disapprove.

Sarcasm aside, the use of “GLOW” is an abomination and must be stopped at all costs.

Standardised acronym system is not your friend here: GLOW is an acronym; JMK is not.

um no. "an acronym is a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words."
Thus JMK is an acronym for Jedi Master Kenobi, GLOW is a different shorthand for the same person just doesnt use any of the letters from the original name and is THUS not an acronym.

other shorthands we have are JTR and GAS. [ Rey (jedi training), and General Skywalker, who switch orders of their letters and/or add in another letter)
technically General skywalkers correct acronym would be GS (but we have many of those) so it would be switched to Gsky which is correct in terms of being an acronym still. However GAS becomes popular for the "funniness" (i believe) so it was taken in as the short hand.

but the big thing is that GL is just a title for the galactic legends normally used with their base names aka GL rey, GL kylo, GL luke. but never to my knowledge had the letters GL just been used with a single letter or 2 of the persons name, aka GLR, GLK, or GLL, until now with "GLOW"

GLOW is an acronym.
JKL is an initialism.

An acronym is when the first letter of each word is used to create a new word that is pronounced as that word. GLOW, SCUBA, RADAR, etc. These are all acronyms. An initialism is when the first letter of each word is pronounced individually. JML, JKL, FBI, CNN, etc. These are all initialisms.

Both are abbreviations.

Technically or literally GLOW may be an acronym for something, but not in this game, or at least not for that character.

Galactic Legend is not part of his name.

Obi Wan is also not part of his name.



Yes someone can make up the phrase Galactic Legend Obi Wan to describe this character, but that is a personal choice to make a phrase that fits the definition of an acronym and is only loosely based on the title given but not the name given.

Also, while slightly off topic, it still sounds weird when I hear people pronounce SWGOH as a word, but I guess that would make it an acronym......