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?

  • unmagical@lemmy.ml
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    20 days ago

    CP does not mean:

    • Cyberpunk
    • Club Penguin
    • Cleft Palate
    • Cerebral Policy
    • Conservative Party

    If you’re on a Unix terminal it means “copy,” anywhere else it means what Josh Duggar is into.

  • Corroded@leminal.spaceOPEnglish
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    20 days ago

    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.

  • NONE@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    It’s not annoying, only quite funny, but every time I see CSM (Chainsaw Man) I can only think of Coño’e su Madre / Cocha’e su Madre (Motherfucker in Latinamerica).

  • quediuspayu@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    SNAFU, how it went from chaotic situation to make a blunder?

    Also, why are Americans so obsessed with acronyms?

    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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      20 days ago

      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.

      Bonus =https://youtu.be/FTBcu34fpHc

      • quediuspayu@lemmy.world
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        20 days ago

        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.

        • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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          20 days ago

          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.

          • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            20 days ago

            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.

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
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    20 days ago

    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

    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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      20 days ago

      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

  • SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    D2 is either a type of steel or a great game in 8th grade.

    LFG used to mean Look For Group in a lot of games. Now it’s let’s fucking go.

  • Bruncvik@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    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…

  • leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl
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    20 days ago

    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

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
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    20 days ago

    never thought of the anime as bsd. sorta funny. I have to admit magic the gathering became so popular all of a sudden in the news.

  • djmikeale@lemm.eeEnglish
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    18 days ago

    I use dbt at work, meaning both data build tool, as well as dialectic behavioural theory