Acromyms form words. You mean abbreviations.
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CBT
Cock and Ball Torture and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
Which of those is new and annoys you?
for me cbt means changed block tracking. I used to work on developing vm backup software
Therapy be wild taking CBT for cognitive behavioral therapy when it's been cock and ball torture for so, so long.
"Therapist said I needed CBT. I just walked out. That dude's fucking crazy if he thinks Imma smash my nuts."
My shop we sell cheese and bacon traveller pies, abbreviated to CBT...
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.
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
Isis used to be the fake spy agency Archer worked for. Damn those middle-eastern radicals stealing the name!
Before that, Isis was an Egyptian goddess and a hot superhero with crossovers to Shazam
Right? Archer's Isis didn't replace those, just made them more Accessable
CNC :(
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.
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...
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.
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I use dbt at work, meaning both data build tool, as well as dialectic behavioural theory
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.
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.
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