• @[email protected]
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    6 days ago

    This article does that annoying thing where it uses acronyms Initialisms without previously using the full verbiage at least once.

    BEV - Battery-Electric Vehicle

    NGDV - Next Generation Delivery Vehicle

    LLV - Long Life Vehicle

    • @PunnyName
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      266 days ago

      Initialisms, technically. But thank you nevertheless.

      • @Glemek
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        186 days ago

        TIL about initialisms, which are like acronyms but when you pronounce the initial letters individually instead of like a spelled out word. DVD being an initialism, versus SCUBA being an acronym.

      • @humorlessrepost
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        56 days ago

        And yet there’s no <initialism> html tag, and it hurts me.

    • @Emerald
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      35 days ago

      To be fair I immediately assumed NGDV was Next Generation Delivery Vehicle. idk how, I just did

    • Hildegarde
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      5 days ago

      To translate further:

      BEV - self explanatory never mind

      NGDV - Oshkosh Next Generation Delivery Vehicle, The new mail truck that looks like a duck

      LLV - The Grumman Long Life Vehicle, the classic mail truck.

      and as a bonus

      FFV - The Ford-Utilimaster Flexible Fuel Vehicle, the early 2000s mail truck that looks like the LLV that you buy from wish.