Wednesday, July 13, 2011

I'm So [X], Even My Acronym

'X' is a prefix that in most information technology usages means "an underlying definition or description." 'X' derives from Greek, meaning "among, with, after, change." Whereas in some English words the prefix indicates "change", in others, including those related to data and information, the prefix carries the meaning of "more comprehensive or fundamental."


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Picture 1: Let's call him 'Y'. He popularized 'X' through one of his works, i.e Picture 4.
Picture 2: Kind of helps to guess 'Y'.
Picture 3: ID the blurred part, you get the answer right away.

Oh yeah, the title of this question helps a lot.


ID 'X' and 'Y'.



2 comments:

  1. pic 3 makes it too easy (i think) its VARIABLE - Sharan no idea how to realte it to the others

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  2. Okay, answers:

    X: The word "meta".
    Y: Douglas Hofstader.

    The title becomes, [I]'m [S]o [M]eta, [E]ven [M]y [A]cronym.

    If you consider the first letter of each of these words, it becomes: "I'm so meta, even my acronym is meta."

    Connects: Douglas Hofstader, Leonard Hofstader (from the Big Bang Theory), "meta", the HTML tag, Hofstader's book.

    Shrinidhi.

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