|
|||||
What is acrostic?An acrostic is a poem or other form of writing in which the first letter, syllable or word of each line, paragraph or other recurring feature in the text spells out a word or a message. Acrostic poem of the name/word "Jim" acrostic - meme gifacrostic - videoAcrostic - what is it?"Across," but colloquial. Generally not acceptable in formal writing, but it is PERFECTLY FINE to use informally, as long as you use it to describe an action in the past. Stop enforcing your prescriptive grammar on us, y'all; I don't have to write like a haughty 19th century Latin student if I don't want to. "I ran acrost the street yesterday to warn Randy that his sticks were burning." What does "acrostic" mean?Acrost = Across; usually takes the auxiliary preposition "from". We ran ACROST the parking lot. Acrostic - what does it mean?An urban legend. A myth. It doesn't exist. Some say it is a mysterious derivative of the word "across", but they would be mistaken. Or the "past tense" of across. However, that claim is ludicrous because across is a preposition. And prepositions don't have "past tenses." For those of you who don't pay attention is English class (all of us!) prepositions have "past participles." People that claim acrost is a word are just like the ones who claim to have seen UFO's or bigfoot. Although bigfoot has those Patterson films. Hmmm...convincing. But these people have no proof that this word exists. And besides they sound retarded when they say it. a. I went "acrost" the dirt road to get some cigs at the tobacco store in my redneck town. Then I saw bigfoot!! Acrostic - meaningA form of steganography in which certain letters from a passage, usually the first in each line, form a name, motto, or message when read in sequence. Often disguised as a poem. The following is an "acrostic poem": |
|||||
www.Definder.net Powered by Urban Dictionary |