Comments by "Neil Forbes" (@neilforbes416) on "Sound By Numbers: The Rise of Digital Sound" video.

  1. D A C, A D C = Acronyms. Making them into words sounds, at best infantile, at worst imbecilic. D. A. C. - Digital (to) Analogue Conversion, A. D. C. = Analogue (to) Digital Conversion. Acronyms should only ever be uttered as individual letters, not made to words. Ram is a male sheep, but R. A. M. is Random Access Memory..... Arr-Ay-Emm(phonetic). E. M. I. is(corporate) Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. Ee Emm Eye(phonetic). It also stands for Electro-Magnetic Interference, which brings me to another point. Acronyms can have only two uses, 1) as the initials of a corporation or an institution or authority, and 2) to identify a phenomenon of science, technology or nature, as E.M.I. is there to represent. When used for one purpose, it can NOT be used again for the same purpose. That use is exhausted. A.P.R.A. stands for Australian Performing Rights Association, and has done since the mid-1920s but another organisation that regulates banks and financial institutions here in Australia has STOLEN the acronym. The other authority has been in existence for roughly 20 years and should be forced to change their acronym.
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