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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Fun fact: DOJ is an initialization, whereas PAC is not.

[–] GardenVarietyAnxiety 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Damn autocorrect, my sporadic but insistent nemesis. 😅🤷🏼‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'm beginning to think autocorrect is against us now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That is a fun fact! What's the difference?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Well that's just nifty. Thanks for letting me know!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Maybe to you don't pronounce DOJ as a word, but I do