I’m running into this more and more with BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and Bungo Stray Dogs.
I was wondering if anyone else has run into anything similar?
PDF file must be one of the Most brainrot offenders
MK, Mortal Kombat, not Mario Kart.
CH, Chapulín Colorado, not Christina Herrera.
SNK, Shin Nihon Kikaku, not Shingeki no Kyojin.
SNK - Saturday Night Korea!
BotW will always mean Best of the Worst to me. Zelda fans should just get over it and spell it out every time. And I like that game.
OK, I’ll bite. Pedant time.
“BSD” isn’t an acronym. It’s an initialism.
Acronyms are pronounced as a words rather than reading the letters, and, well, you’d be beatboxing if you pronounced BSD as a word.
Isn’t an initialism a subcategory of acronym by definition?
Other way around. Acronyms are a subcategory of initialisms, specifically the ones that can be read as if they’re words.
It’s not pronounced buzzed? I’ve been saying Freebuzzed wrong all this time???
Nobody dared telling you.
If you ever have doubts how other stuff is pronounced, just axman.
Hey, that’s my job
- Part time job
POV is just not point of view anymore. In modern social media it mostly shows something where there could be a POV, but now you see it in 3rd person because people don’t care about what POV means.
Another one that came to mind is TF2. I like Titanfall 2 more than Team Fortress 2 but I associate the acronym with Team Fortress 2.
I mean TF2 was kinda old by the time the first Titanfall came out.
True, but still a very active game.
You just reminded me the confusion I had trying to figure out if people are talking about Battlefield 2 or Battlefront 2 years ago
Ever play D2?
Two sided dice, for binary decisions in DnD? Sure, I’ve flipped a coin
Ah man another one of these is Monster Hunter World (MHW) and now the new game Monster Hunter Wilds (MHW). 🤦
As a dude who loves Transport Fever 2, you better believe I get this wrong a lot.
MTG it’s a trading card game and not some dumb ass politician.
I try to pronounce it “Empty G” with a slight emphasis on the “p”.
I also see ‘meeting’ abbreviated as MTG. Which, is now what I call it when I send texts to my friends to play Magic. “Hey, got time for a MTG MTG?”
Gotta run with the lowercase “t” to have a little distinction
SNAFU, how it went from chaotic situation to make a blunder?
Also, why are Americans so obsessed with acronyms?
Also, why are Americans so obsessed with acronyms?
My guess would be WW2 and the US Army. The military likes to keep messages concise, so they love to use acronyms. For many service men, the Army was their first experience outside of their small towns. When the soldiers entered the civilian world they brought their training with them. AWOL [Absent With Out Leave] is still a common expression here. SNAFU [Situation Normal, All Fouled UP] and FUBAR [Fouled Up Beyond All Repair] went from being gags to part of the common speech.
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I don’t mean the military acronyms, those make the most sense of all.
I mean all the other, you just need to see the reat of the comments, video games, names of celebrities and politicians, others are used as euphemisms. Now you can even read news articles were only use the acronym of whatever without mentioning a single time what that acronym stands for.
I meant that when the ex-soldiers entered the civilian world they brought the idea of acronyms with them. They looked around and created new ones because that’s what they thought was appropriate.
Also texting on Nokias happened, many were invented to save clicks.
Furthermore it’s arguably natural for organizations to be abbreviated/initialized and it’s not an American phenomenon, as evidenced by the кгб and фсб; or the YPG, KSB, YPJ; ETC.
Not annoyed, but i enjoy annoying red hats by taking about how much I appreciate BLM. As soon as they start spouting off I start talking about how we camped on Bureau of Land Management land out west and it was great.
Alternatively, how Brennan Lee Mulligan is a great GM
Also Game Master > General Motors
I read GM as Grand Master (chess). You’ve bastardised it now.
Grand Master (chess) > Game Master > Literal dog shit > General Motors
Better? ;-)
Perfecto.
Muchas gracias
AC – alternating current, ass crust
DTF – downtime failure, discreet time fourier, down to funkyland
SMB – server message block, some mammamia bros
IANAL – i am not a lawyer, sure you do
A group of separatist rebels in the Philippines formed the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
MILF, for short.
In Berlin there’s a car hire company called “Miles” (very handy, you can book and pick up a car in minutes) and they have a bunch of vans with a “damaged” e. So now it says Milfs. Hoho.
Not annoyed but amused. I suffer from IBS. And in my work there are Internal Business Systems. So I suffer from IBS twice.
SRS/GRS is absolutely everywhere as an acronym. It stands for Sex/Gender Reassignment Surgery
HRT too (Hormone Replacement Therapy)
BLM
Especially since the Bureau of Land Management is regularly talked about in my field.
I have no issue with the civil rights movement tho
Due to anti-DEI policies the agency is now called All Land Management
BARREN LANDS MATTER !
DNF: Disjunctive normal form, Dandified YUM
It’s Did Not Finish in racing
I put DNF stickers on items around the house, to remind myself that not everything exists for sexual gratification.
It’s weird seeing news articles about the SEC that have nothing to do with college football.
You mean size exclusion chromatography, surely.
The Southeastern Conference was founded in 1932. The Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934.
