Declare your acronyms ffs. American articles love flinging them around as if everyone just know what they mean from the get go. And it makes a lot of the articles make no sense to anyone who is not American, or just doesn’t know. Nevermind that a lot of 2, 3, and 4 letter abbreviations have multiple meanings depending on context…
To help out; DOJ = Department of Justice, and PAC = Political Action Committee.
Bud this is a US politics community. Using standard American TLAs (three letter acronyms ;) ) in an American community when discussing an American article is completely acceptable imo.
No point in getting a little spicy when you’re the one out of place - “when in Rome”, yeah?
Declare your acronyms ffs. American articles love flinging them around as if everyone just know what they mean from the get go. And it makes a lot of the articles make no sense to anyone who is not American, or just doesn’t know. Nevermind that a lot of 2, 3, and 4 letter abbreviations have multiple meanings depending on context…
To help out; DOJ = Department of Justice, and PAC = Political Action Committee.
This is specifically an American politics community, though.
Yup, and I recognize DOJ and PAC more easily than the non-acronym versions of those.
ffs = “for fuck’s sake”
Shit, you’re right…
SYR
Bud this is a US politics community. Using standard American TLAs (three letter acronyms ;) ) in an American community when discussing an American article is completely acceptable imo.
No point in getting a little spicy when you’re the one out of place - “when in Rome”, yeah?
Fun fact: DOJ is an initialization, whereas PAC is not.
Initialism* ;P
Damn autocorrect, my sporadic but insistent nemesis. 😅🤷🏼♂️
I’m beginning to think autocorrect is against us now.
That is a fun fact! What’s the difference?
Whether the end result is pronounced as a “word”.
FBI, VPN, and DNA are initialisms. SCUBA, NATO, and MoDem are acronyms.
Hope that helps, friend.
Well that’s just nifty. Thanks for letting me know!
Maybe to you don’t pronounce DOJ as a word, but I do
Articles about every country does the same exact thing. I do agree with you though.