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?
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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.
Hey, that’s my job
- Part time job
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.
Wireless Application Protocol. I can no longer say on my CV that I ‘worked on WAP in the early 2000s’.
I’m working with data, where we have a concept called “write, audit, publish” (also abbreviated WAP). I’m laughing on the inside everyone I hear anyone talking about it.
What is WAP, if not wireless application protocol?
Moist butt cat
MoistCr1tikal?
a pop star made a popular song about it, I too was lost but someone pointed it out… Wet Ass Pussy
OMS! I don’t want to know what ass pussy is!
Ask your mom for me. She knows 😏
Leaving out the hyphen totally changed the meaning !
Wide area progressive, when slot machines across multiple casinos contribute to one combined jackpot.
LETS GO GAMBLING!!!
The Linux Kernel has a specific one, whereby DRM doesn’t mean Digital Rights Protection, only thing I could think of.
That one’s especially egregious because the Direct Rendering Manager handles displaying things to the screen, where you might have Digital Rights Management involvement in the form of HDCP support, etc.
yeah, I still get confused with that one
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DP is Diet Pepsi
Dr. Pepper
Ummm…no it isn’t. Sorry
It’s dog park.
I’m aging myself here, but WoW used to stand for “Winds of War”, an expansion for Heroes of Might and Magic IV. Then, World of Warcraft was released…
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.
LoRa - to me it’s Long Range Radio and has been for a decade. It has some fucking AI slop meaning that recently came up, now.
SWIFT is not a programming language it’s a trading protocol that runs the global financial markets which I’m working very hard to forget but still it deserves respect.
But the name of the language isn’t an acronym it’s just the word swift.
Doesn’t change the fact that people think it’s the same thing lol
CNC :(
PDF file must be one of the Most brainrot offenders
I remember being annoyed when PS2 suddenly was a gaming console and not a line of personal computers from IBM.
Yes, I know it’s PS2 vs. PS/2 when written out, but no one ever says PS-slash-2 when speaking.
i thought you were talking about the old mouse and keyboard connectors
FTP: free to play, file transfer protocol
SRS: Serious, sex reassignment surgery, social responsiveness scale, etc
LOL: laugh out loud, lots of love, loot or lie
LOL: laugh out loud, lots of love, loot or lie
League of Legends
first time I experienced LOL was way back, Early 1990s. When AOL was still in 1.x for the Apple. My buddy and I broke into his brothers work computer and were playing around online in the chat rooms. They told us it was Loser On Line and it was a long time before I understood that wasnt what it was… those jerks
I had a kinder experience and was told LOL was Leg of Lamb. That just left me confused.
AOL: Absent, on leave
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
So many people think Mac is an acronym for whatever reason, as in “Do you use MAC or PC?”.
I don’t know why they think this. It was never formatted that way in any of Apple’s marketing materials.
It really annoys me. In my head when I read it I hear “MAC” pronounced in the voice of Gilbert Godfrey.
I’m guessing they’re confusing it with MAC addresses? They probably saw the term somewhere and wrongly assumed it had something to do with Apple Macs.
Macintosh Apple Computer
MAC stands for MAC Apple Computer. It’s a recursive acronym.
True, although it’s more formally known as an Apple MAC Apple Computer, or Apple Mackintosh Apple Computer Apple Computer.
With Apple standing, of course, for Applied Possibility and Permutation Learning Environment.
CP does not mean:
- Cyberpunk
- Club Penguin
- Cleft Palate
- Cerebral
PolicyPalsy - Conservative Party
If you’re on a Unix terminal it means “copy,” anywhere else it means what Josh Duggar is into.
Cerebral Policy? We could use some of that
Where I am it universally refers to a railroad company, Canadian Pacific.
I used
cpto refer tocode pointerat work. Got very weird looks…cheese pizza
And in the corporate Windows world, it’s the Company Portal (essentially the inter-company App Store). I always have to type it out because I don’t like telling people to go to the CP.
