Acronym or short letters?

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- A.I. stands for artificial intelligence.
- A.I is short for artificial intelligence.

Q1) Are both of sentences grammatically right?
Q2) I want to know the noun same meaning as acronym? Could you teach me for it? Can't I use "short letters" instead of it?
Q3) Could you teach me the noun which has opposite meaning of "acronym"? Could you teach me it by easy word? Can't I use "full letters"?

Thank you in advance for your teaching.

Enoon · Accepted Answer

Son JamesQ1) Are both of sentences grammatically right?

You left a period off the second one, but, yes.

Son JamesQ2) I want to know the noun same meaning as acronym? Could you teach me for it? Can't I use "short letters" instead of it?

"Short letters" is not understandable. An acronym is properly a word, usually a name, that is made up of capital letters, usually initials, pronounced as a word: NASA (National Aeronautics, etc.), BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic, etc.), UNESCO (United Nations, etc.). An abbreviation often has periods: U.S., A.I., M.O. Various terms have been put forward lately for similar things, like "initialism" for a string of capitals not pronounced as a word (CIA, FBI, UFO) and "backronym" for an acronym that is trumped up, like BASIC and DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education).

Son JamesCould you teach me the noun which has opposite meaning of "acronym"? Could you teach me it by easy word? Can't I use "full letters"?

Nouns don't have opposites. "Full letters" is not understandable. Maybe you mean "spelled out".

Son James · Answer

Thank you so much for your teaching,enoon

. I was happy to learn new words in your answers. Could I ask you more?

"Various terms have been put forward lately for similar things, like "initialism" for a string of capitals not pronounced as a word (CIA, FBI, UFO)"

Q) I couldn't understand the meanings of "various terms" and "a string of capitals". Even though I looked them though my dictionary, I couldn't. Couldn't you tell me for the meanings by easier expression?

Thank you in advance for your answer.

Enoon · Answer

A term is a special word for a particular thing. "Various" just means that there are many of them, and they are not well organized. A string of anything is several of them in a row. By "capitals", I meant capital letters.

Son James · Answer

Now I can understand it. Thank you for your kind explanation, Enoon<img class='emoticon' style='Width:19px;Height:19px;' data-delaysrc='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/10.gif' src='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/10.gif' alt='Emotion: embarrassed'/>

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