In popular usage to this day, the letters SOS (no periods) are commonly believed to be an acronym for: source: Yahoo! et wikipediaWhat does S.O.S stand for?
Save Our Ship
Save Our Souls
Sink Or Swim
These are termed ‘backronyms,’ as explained below, and came into popular use AFTER SOS went into effect. In actuality, and as originally intended when SOS was introduced in 1908, the letters have no meaning.
SOS is a Morse “procedural signal” or “prosign.” As the SOS signal is a ‘prosign’, its respective letters have no inherent meaning per se. In the simplest terms, SOS is a ‘SIGNAL’ indicating distress and the need for help, and not an acronym or abbreviation.
After SOS was first used by the steamship Arapahoe in 1909 (not the Titanic in 1912 as many people believe), people applied their own meanings to the letters. The most popular ones: “save our ship” and “save our souls.” These are correctly termed ‘bacronyms.’
‘SOS’ was chosen because the three dots, three dashes, three dots are easy to transmit and not easily confused with other letters by the sender or recipients. With the advent of radios on ships beginning in the 1920s, ‘Mayday’ became, and still is, the International Distress Signal, but SOS served its purpose, for a while.
Bacronym: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym
“WORST ANIME EVER”
Based on the ranking of the internet views worldwide Hametsu No Mars (OAV) has Topped Last.
Alternative title:Mars of Destruction破滅のマルス (Japanese)
Story Goes on to Some time after a space mission to Mars ends in destruction, strange monsters called “Ancients” begin appearing around Tokyo. A group of specialists consisting of three girls and one troubled young boy must fight the Ancients until they can come to understand exactly what it is they are fighting. When one of the Ancients tells them that they are the true invaders of Earth, they must search within themselves to grasp what truly is reality.
User Ratings: 67 ratings have been given [details] Masterpiece: 4 votes (sub:3, ?:1) Excellent: - Very good: 1 vote (sub:1) Good: 2 votes (sub:2) Decent: 5 votes (sub:5) So-so: 5 votes (sub:5) Not really good: 7 votes (sub:7) Weak: 7 votes (sub:7) Bad: 7 votes (sub:7) Awful: 9 votes (sub:8, dub:1) Worst ever: 20 votes (sub:20)Seen in part or in whole by 92 users, rank: #2562
Median rating: Weak
Arithmetic mean: 2.821 (Weak-.17), std. dev.: 2.8543, rank: #4545
Weighted mean: 3.004 (Weak+.00), rank: #4526 (seen all: 3.02 / won’t finish: 2.00)
Bayesian estimate: 3.540 (Not really good-.46), rank: #3477
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![“WORST ANIME EVER”
Based on the ranking of the internet views worldwide Hametsu No Mars (OAV) has Topped Last.
Alternative title:Mars of Destruction破滅のマルス (Japanese)Story Goes on to Some time after a space mission to Mars ends in destruction, strange monsters called “Ancients” begin appearing around Tokyo. A group of specialists consisting of three girls and one troubled young boy must fight the Ancients until they can come to understand exactly what it is they are fighting. When one of the Ancients tells them that they are the true invaders of Earth, they must search within themselves to grasp what truly is reality.User Ratings: 67 ratings have been given [details] Masterpiece: 4 votes (sub:3, ?:1) Excellent: - Very good: 1 vote (sub:1) Good: 2 votes (sub:2) Decent: 5 votes (sub:5) So-so: 5 votes (sub:5) Not really good: 7 votes (sub:7) Weak: 7 votes (sub:7) Bad: 7 votes (sub:7) Awful: 9 votes (sub:8, dub:1) Worst ever: 20 votes (sub:20)Seen in part or in whole by 92 users, rank: #2562Median rating: WeakArithmetic mean: 2.821 (Weak-.17), std. dev.: 2.8543, rank: #4545Weighted mean: 3.004 (Weak+.00), rank: #4526 (seen all: 3.02 / won’t finish: 2.00)Bayesian estimate: 3.540 (Not really good-.46), rank: #3477Running time: 20 minutesVintage: 2005Some may have reconsidered loving it but that may be a long long time ago, try watching it and maybe by a percent you may like th WORST ANIME.This blog has no offense to the anime and is just reporting updates based on animenewsnetwork update.XDD](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7ujowIsgt1qcej9yo1_250.jpg)
