Posted: 19 September 2017 at 3:17pm | IP Logged | 1
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I hate to be the one to pick a nit (well, actually, I don't too much mind) but it might be a tiny bit easier if there actually WERE an acronym instead of a collection of letters.
Technically, an acronym is a word that is made up from the first letters of a collection of words, e.g., laser or scuba.
All the current references for the collection of sexually differently-oriented persons is a non-pronounceable assemblage of letters.
There was (and likely still is) the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation... GLAAD. It happens that the acronym suits a very good word for its purpose.
I can't say this is a major contributor either way, but a real acronym might not engender that little extra aggravation that the "goddamned alphabet soup from hell!" raises.
Just a point of grammar. Please continue you regularly scheduled discussion... glaadly.
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