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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-42•edit-21 year agoit’s fairly obvious from the context EDIT: lol, this discussion is insane. So many downvotes haha, what a bunch of weirdos on lemmy.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-4•1 year agobecause the very first sentence speaks of US states, so those acronyms must be for state names?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish17•1 year agoI didn’t know US speakers refer to their states by acronyms. We don’t do that in my country.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-21 year agook. Seems fairly common across the world. In germany it’s common-place as well to use acronyms, sometimes even in speech (mostly for those with longer names like BW for Baden-Württemberg)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•edit-21 year agoI have yet to meet someone who says BW. Maybe your social bubble doesn’t encompass the entire nation.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoWe do say “NRW” at least. Even the news sometimes do. I propably wouldn’t do it in an international forum though.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 year agoI have never heard anyone refer to BaWü as BW in speech. The only Bundesland I have ever encountered that is NRW.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoThough most wouldn’t do that in an international sub with an audience that obviously won’t know the acronyms.
it’s fairly obvious from the context
EDIT: lol, this discussion is insane. So many downvotes haha, what a bunch of weirdos on lemmy.
No? Why would it be?
because the very first sentence speaks of US states, so those acronyms must be for state names?
I didn’t know US speakers refer to their states by acronyms. We don’t do that in my country.
ok. Seems fairly common across the world. In germany it’s common-place as well to use acronyms, sometimes even in speech (mostly for those with longer names like BW for Baden-Württemberg)
I have yet to meet someone who says BW. Maybe your social bubble doesn’t encompass the entire nation.
We do say “NRW” at least. Even the news sometimes do. I propably wouldn’t do it in an international forum though.
I have never heard anyone refer to BaWü as BW in speech.
The only Bundesland I have ever encountered that is NRW.
Though most wouldn’t do that in an international sub with an audience that obviously won’t know the acronyms.