SWIFT is not a programming language it's a trading protocol that runs the global financial markets which I'm working very hard to forget but still it deserves respect.
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OK, I'll bite. Pedant time.
"BSD" isn't an acronym. It's an initialism.
Acronyms are pronounced as a words rather than reading the letters, and, well, you'd be beatboxing if you pronounced BSD as a word.
Hey, that's my job
- Part time job
It’s not pronounced buzzed? I’ve been saying Freebuzzed wrong all this time???
Nobody dared telling you.
If you ever have doubts how other stuff is pronounced, just axman.
Isn't an initialism a subcategory of acronym by definition?
Other way around. Acronyms are a subcategory of initialisms, specifically the ones that can be read as if they're words.
Not annoyed, but i enjoy annoying red hats by taking about how much I appreciate BLM. As soon as they start spouting off I start talking about how we camped on Bureau of Land Management land out west and it was great.
Alternatively, how Brennan Lee Mulligan is a great GM
Also Game Master > General Motors
I remember being annoyed when PS2 suddenly was a gaming console and not a line of personal computers from IBM.
Yes, I know it's PS2 vs. PS/2 when written out, but no one ever says PS-slash-2 when speaking.
i thought you were talking about the old mouse and keyboard connectors
CBT - Clifford Brick Transport. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Cock Ball torture.
Cannabis CBT and in turn THC, that's all I know the CBT acronym for
I think you're thinking of CBD
Central business district?
FTP: free to play, file transfer protocol
SRS: Serious, sex reassignment surgery, social responsiveness scale, etc
LOL: laugh out loud, lots of love, loot or lie
DP is Diet Pepsi
Dr. Pepper
The Linux Kernel has a specific one, whereby DRM doesn't mean Digital Rights Protection, only thing I could think of.
Not annoyed but amused. I suffer from IBS. And in my work there are Internal Business Systems. So I suffer from IBS twice.
Therapy be wild taking CBT for cognitive behavioral therapy when it's been cock and ball torture for so, so long.
"Therapist said I needed CBT. I just walked out. That dude's fucking crazy if he thinks Imma smash my nuts."
My shop we sell cheese and bacon traveller pies, abbreviated to CBT...
BLM
Especially since the Bureau of Land Management is regularly talked about in my field.
I have no issue with the civil rights movement tho
Due to anti-DEI policies the agency is now called All Land Management
BARREN LANDS MATTER !
Apparently BBC no longer means Big Black Chicken
I love how someone uploaded a video titled "Virgin asshole destroyed by BBC" to pornhub, and it was a video of Ben Shapiro losing his shit after badly failing at debating one of the BBC hosts.
Wireless Application Protocol. I can no longer say on my CV that I 'worked on WAP in the early 2000s'.
What is WAP, if not wireless application protocol?
a pop star made a popular song about it, I too was lost but someone pointed it out.... Wet Ass Pussy
OMS! I don't want to know what ass pussy is!
All the time. Like at some point SC stopped meaning StarCraft and started meaning Splinter Cell. And don't let me get started about the famous roleplaying game PoE. Yes, or course I mean Pillars of Eternity and not Path of Exile.
For me, SC means Supreme Court and PoE means "Power over Ethernet" lol.
Sorry, can't read PoE as anything besides Permit Office Enforcement
It's weird seeing news articles about the SEC that have nothing to do with college football.
The Southeastern Conference was founded in 1932. The Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934.
DNF: Disjunctive normal form, Dandified YUM
I put DNF stickers on items around the house, to remind myself that not everything exists for sexual gratification.
It's Did Not Finish in racing