How would you abbreviate the word "analysis"?

El mojito · Post by **El mojito** » January 5, 2006 4:20 pm

anal
adjective obsessive; finicky; fussy; having to have everything in strict order, set up perfectly neatly, etc.: Don't be so anal. [from psychoanalytical terminology, relating to an anal character or the anal stage

Lightning Bolt · Post by **Lightning Bolt** » January 5, 2006 4:24 pm

how about "a-sis"?

El mojito · Post by **El mojito** » January 5, 2006 4:25 pm

Analysis (ana="up" or "back", and lyein, "to loose") means a separation; it is the taking apart of that which was united, and corresponds exactly to the Latin form "resolution" (re + solvere). Its opposite is synthesis (syn, "together", and tithenai, "to put", hence, a "putting-together", a "composition"). According to this etymology, analysis, in general, is the process by which anything complex is resolved into simple, or, at least, into less complex parts or elements. This complex may be:

(1) Concrete, that is, an individual substance, quality or process, in either the physical or the mental order;
(2) Abstract and ideal; incapable, therefore, of existing apart from the mind that conceives it.

CadiRita · Post by **CadiRita** » January 5, 2006 4:26 pm

Another good question is: If the Jaguars are referred to as the Jags and the Buccaneers are the Bucs what would you call the Titans?

Lightning Bolt · Post by **Lightning Bolt** » January 5, 2006 4:28 pm

CadiRita wrote:Another good question is: If the Jaguars are referred to as the Jags and the Buccaneers are the Bucs what would you call the Titans?

The Tights

FarsideCobbPH · Post by **FarsideCobbPH** » January 5, 2006 4:44 pm

The t*ts

rsgeist · Post by **rsgeist** » January 5, 2006 5:35 pm

CadiRita wrote:Another good question is: If the Jaguars are referred to as the Jags and the Buccaneers are the Bucs what would you call the Titans?

Losers?