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.
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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.
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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.
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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
CBT - Clifford Brick Transport. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Cock Ball torture.
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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
All the time. Like at some point SC stopped meaning StarCraft and started meaning Splinter Cell. And don't let me get started about the famous roleplaying game PoE. Yes, or course I mean Pillars of Eternity and not Path of Exile.
For me, SC means Supreme Court and PoE means "Power over Ethernet" lol.
bruh it's South Carolina
Lol, i can't think of PoE as anything but Power over Ethernet.
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The Linux Kernel has a specific one, whereby DRM doesn't mean Digital Rights Protection, only thing I could think of.
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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.
It's weird seeing news articles about the SEC that have nothing to do with college football.
You mean size exclusion chromatography, surely.
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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).
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.
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.