Re:Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers
by ggambetta on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @06:35AM
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Would that be my personal pin number, or some other pin number?
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Re:Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers
by maaaats on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @07:24AM
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> personal pin number
It's your personal personal identification number number
Re:Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers
by rys on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @06:36AM
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The PIN you use to prove it's your card, when you use it in an ATM or in a chip and PIN reader.
Re:Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers
by wrboyce on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @06:49AM
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I'm going to hazard a guess that @ggambetta is making a veiled reference to "RAS Syndrome".
Re:Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers
by benj111 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @07:47AM
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Off topic, but is there a name for names that are diagnostic or demonstrative of the thing. Eg you can't say 'lisp' with a lisp, have trouble spelling dyslexia with dyslexia. 'hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words, TLA (three letter acronym) and the above obviously.
Re:Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers
by this_is_not_you on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @08:52AM
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I think you are looking for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autological_word
Re:Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers
by benj111 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @09:12AM
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Perhaps? The examples given seem much more limited to the qualities of the word itself, I'm not sure the lisp example would fit under that banner.
That page does link to 'Ostensive definition' though:
"An ostensive definition conveys the meaning of a term by pointing out examples"
So perhaps 'Auto-ostensive'?
Re:Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers
by ggambetta on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @07:39AM
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Yep :) Didn't know it was called that.
Re:Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers
by ggambetta on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @07:40AM
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It's refreshing to see the correct capitalisation and no redundant words in your sentence :)
Re:Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers
by evilmoo on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @06:40AM
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It's the one you use in the ATM Machine :)
Re:Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers
by ggambetta on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @07:39AM
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I only use automatic ATM machines.
Re:Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers
by comma-ampersand on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @07:13AM
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It's your personal identification pin number