I’m running into this more and more with BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and Bungo Stray Dogs.

I was wondering if anyone else has run into anything similar?

  • quediuspayu@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 days ago

    I don’t mean the military acronyms, those make the most sense of all.

    I mean all the other, you just need to see the reat of the comments, video games, names of celebrities and politicians, others are used as euphemisms. Now you can even read news articles were only use the acronym of whatever without mentioning a single time what that acronym stands for.

    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
      31·
      3 days ago

      I meant that when the ex-soldiers entered the civilian world they brought the idea of acronyms with them. They looked around and created new ones because that’s what they thought was appropriate.

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        3 days ago

        Also texting on Nokias happened, many were invented to save clicks.

        Furthermore it’s arguably natural for organizations to be abbreviated/initialized and it’s not an American phenomenon, as evidenced by the кгб and фсб; or the YPG, KSB, YPJ; ETC.