Tornado rips through town - GIF

**Philip Davies** · Aug 1, 2023, 07:23 AM

There was me thinking EWS was a new building technology….

**hotdog0627** · Aug 1, 2023, 07:13 PM

Originally Posted by Hoosiersmoker

EWS isn't technically an acronym, it's initialism. AIDS (Affected Immunodeficiency Syndrome), YAHOO (Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle), the group ABBA (Agnetha, Björn, Benny, Anni-Frid) are acronyms. They form "words" or letters that can be pronounced as words anyway. FYI...

Oh.. thank you.. I didnt know that... that's why I love this forum, Things/terms get to be explained with accuracy... thank you sir!

**Hoosiersmoker** · Aug 2, 2023, 06:13 AM

Originally Posted by hotdog0627

Oh.. thank you.. I didnt know that... that's why I love this forum, Things/terms get to be explained with accuracy... thank you sir!

And I truly appreciate you accepting the information in the spirit it was given! It is sometimes difficult to tell when people are being sincere or sarcastic when all you have is typed words. No inflexion or facial expressions. Everyone please know that my comments here will either be joking around or an attempt to be helpful and inform, never to attack or belittle. For example, I ended the previous statement with FYI an attempt to be clever and use initialism within my comment!

-Hoosiersmoker