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.
ffs = “for fuck’s sake”
This is specifically an American politics community, though.
Yup, and I recognize DOJ and PAC more easily than the non-acronym versions of those.
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.
Maybe to you don’t pronounce DOJ as a word, but I do
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!
Articles about every country does the same exact thing. I do agree with you though.