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?

    • @ptc075@lemmy.zip
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      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?”

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    CP does not mean:

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

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

  • Grass Cat
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    Apparently BBC no longer means Big Black Chicken

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      I love how someone uploaded a video titled “Virgin asshole destroyed by BBC” to pornhub, and it was a video of Ben Shapiro losing his shit after badly failing at debating one of the BBC hosts.

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        Those of a vintage beyond even my own will know that it stands for “Broken Biscuit Company”, which I believe originated on BBC radio with The Goon Show. Now that’s not an acronym, but it is another word that’s picked up an unfortunate extra meaning in recent years.

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      This! It’s so frustrating trying to fill my hen house

  • Lexam
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    Not annoyed but amused. I suffer from IBS. And in my work there are Internal Business Systems. So I suffer from IBS twice.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮
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    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.”

  • @SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    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

  • @SirSamuel@lemmy.world
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    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

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    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.

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          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.

  • @SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • @toddestan@lemmy.world
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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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    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.

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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.

  • @whoisearth@lemmy.ca
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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.