I hate to comment before reading the body of your post, but the title of the post quite literally says “Friendly Artificial Intelligence Frequently Asked Questions Questions.”
I’m just pointing it out to get it out of the way, though… It doesn’t really bug me that much.
It is commonplace to use the term “FAQ” to mean “list of frequently asked questions”, in which “FAQ questions” means “questions for putting in a list of frequently asked questions”. Which would be rather cumbersome and repetitious-sounding … if it weren’t for that convenient abbreviation “FAQ”.
“FAQ”doesn’t really mean “Frequently Asked Questions” even though it’s technically an acronym for that phrase. The actual meaning is something like “list of questions anticipated to be common among visitors, complete with answers”.
I used to be more annoyed at that sort of thing, until I caught myself saying, “CSS Stylesheet” to distinguish it from other uses (inline, etc.) of using CSS.
I hate to comment before reading the body of your post, but the title of the post quite literally says “Friendly Artificial Intelligence Frequently Asked Questions Questions.”
I’m just pointing it out to get it out of the way, though… It doesn’t really bug me that much.
It is commonplace to use the term “FAQ” to mean “list of frequently asked questions”, in which “FAQ questions” means “questions for putting in a list of frequently asked questions”. Which would be rather cumbersome and repetitious-sounding … if it weren’t for that convenient abbreviation “FAQ”.
Alright. That makes sense.
Sort of like changing your name through common usage.
“FAQ”doesn’t really mean “Frequently Asked Questions” even though it’s technically an acronym for that phrase. The actual meaning is something like “list of questions anticipated to be common among visitors, complete with answers”.
I used to be more annoyed at that sort of thing, until I caught myself saying, “CSS Stylesheet” to distinguish it from other uses (inline, etc.) of using CSS.