"Raw" is not an acronym, and it's not a backronym, so there's no reason to capitalize every letter. Would you ask someone if he wants his carrots cooked or RAW?
From Word-A-Day -
In a backronym, an expansion is invented to treat an existing word as an acronym. For example, some believe that the word NEWS is an acronym for North, East, West, and South. In reality, the word is coined from “new” as in: What’s new?
When naming something, sometimes a suitable name is chosen and then an acronym is retrofitted on top of it: USA PATRIOT Act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism). The clunkiness of the expansion is a quick giveaway. How about forming a backronym for ACRONYM itself: A Contrived Result Of Nomenclature Yielding Mechanism?
Often, backronyms serve a useful purpose as mnemonics.
Maybe people capitalize it for emphasis.
jerryc41 wrote:
"Raw" is not an acronym, and it's not a backronym, so there's no reason to capitalize every letter. Would you ask someone if he wants his carrots cooked or RAW?
From Word-A-Day -
In a backronym, an expansion is invented to treat an existing word as an acronym. For example, some believe that the word NEWS is an acronym for North, East, West, and South. In reality, the word is coined from “new” as in: What’s new?
When naming something, sometimes a suitable name is chosen and then an acronym is retrofitted on top of it: USA PATRIOT Act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism). The clunkiness of the expansion is a quick giveaway. How about forming a backronym for ACRONYM itself: A Contrived Result Of Nomenclature Yielding Mechanism?
Often, backronyms serve a useful purpose as mnemonics.
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Jerry, you have too much time on your hands.
People capitalize it due to its evolved use as a term of art. As a term of art it is RAW. People started capitalizing it and it stuck. So now it is RAW. Just like now "among/between" are synonyms "affect/impact" are both verbs, etc... The tide of the great unwashed being given access to writing implements continues to roll over us...
jerryc41 wrote:
"Raw" is not an acronym, and it's not a backronym, so there's no reason to capitalize every letter. Would you ask someone if he wants his carrots cooked or RAW?
From Word-A-Day -
In a backronym, an expansion is invented to treat an existing word as an acronym. For example, some believe that the word NEWS is an acronym for North, East, West, and South. In reality, the word is coined from “new” as in: What’s new?
When naming something, sometimes a suitable name is chosen and then an acronym is retrofitted on top of it: USA PATRIOT Act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism). The clunkiness of the expansion is a quick giveaway. How about forming a backronym for ACRONYM itself: A Contrived Result Of Nomenclature Yielding Mechanism?
Often, backronyms serve a useful purpose as mnemonics.
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Straight from "The Manual of Photography," the = of the photography "bible" - RAW is not a single file format but is a generic term indicating proprietary image file formats...." The term "RAW" does not appear to stand for any particular string of words, as in JPEG, DNG, PDF, etc. However, they use RAW to denote a specific file type and the word "raw" in the sense of "raw data." It is a way of differentiation.
dsmeltz wrote:
People capitalize it due to its evolved use as a term of art. As a term of art it is RAW. People started capitalizing it and it stuck. So now it is RAW. Just like now "among/between" are synonyms "affect/impact" are both verbs, etc... The tide of the great unwashed being given access to writing implements continues to roll over us...
Actually it came out immediately as RAW. It did not evolve unless people are now not capitalizing it.
via the lens wrote:
Actually it came out immediately as RAW. It did not evolve unless people are now not capitalizing it.
That's what I remember also. And I saw an older reference that suggested the all-caps was to keep similar style as TIFF and JPEG
Linda From Maine wrote:
That's what I remember also. And I saw an older reference that suggested the all-caps was to keep similar style as TIFF and JPEG
I agree.
Keep the image connotation the same.
jerryc41 wrote:
"Raw" is not an acronym, and it's not a backronym, so there's no reason to capitalize every letter. Would you ask someone if he wants his carrots cooked or RAW?
From Word-A-Day -
In a backronym, an expansion is invented to treat an existing word as an acronym. For example, some believe that the word NEWS is an acronym for North, East, West, and South. In reality, the word is coined from “new” as in: What’s new?
When naming something, sometimes a suitable name is chosen and then an acronym is retrofitted on top of it: USA PATRIOT Act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism). The clunkiness of the expansion is a quick giveaway. How about forming a backronym for ACRONYM itself: A Contrived Result Of Nomenclature Yielding Mechanism?
Often, backronyms serve a useful purpose as mnemonics.
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That way when someone writes RAW we know the person isn't talking about food.
and all this time I thought it meant "Really Awesome Wow"!
MrBob
Loc: lookout Mtn. NE Alabama
dsmeltz wrote:
People capitalize it due to its evolved use as a term of art. As a term of art it is RAW. People started capitalizing it and it stuck. So now it is RAW. Just like now "among/between" are synonyms "affect/impact" are both verbs, etc... The tide of the great unwashed being given access to writing implements continues to roll over us...
I just love your use of words in your comments...makes my day.
RAW, a camera file format, is different than raw, uncooked food.
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