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?
MTG it’s a trading card game and not some dumb ass politician.
I try to pronounce it “Empty G” with a slight emphasis on the “p”.
Apparently BBC no longer means Big Black Chicken
Duh, it’s British Broadcasting Chicken.
Huh, I though it was British 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.
This! It’s so frustrating trying to fill my hen house
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?
Moist butt cat
MoistCr1tikal?
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!
Another one that came to mind is TF2. I like Titanfall 2 more than Team Fortress 2 but I associate the acronym with Team Fortress 2.
You just reminded me the confusion I had trying to figure out if people are talking about Battlefield 2 or Battlefront 2 years ago
I mean TF2 was kinda old by the time the first Titanfall came out.
Ah man another one of these is Monster Hunter World (MHW) and now the new game Monster Hunter Wilds (MHW). 🤦
Ever play D2?
D2 is either a type of steel or a great game in 8th grade.
LFG used to mean Look For Group in a lot of games. Now it’s let’s fucking go.
LucasFilm Games
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?
“Changed Block Tracking” for me.
So many people think Mac is an acronym for whatever reason, as in “Do you use MAC or PC?”.
I don’t know why they think this. It was never formatted that way in any of Apple’s marketing materials.
It really annoys me. In my head when I read it I hear “MAC” pronounced in the voice of Gilbert Godfrey.
I’m guessing they’re confusing it with MAC addresses? They probably saw the term somewhere and wrongly assumed it had something to do with Apple Macs.
Macintosh Apple Computer
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.
Nah, Supreme Court is abbreviated as SCROTUM.
Nice
bruh it’s South Carolina
Sorry, can’t read PoE as anything besides Permit Office Enforcement
To be fair “SC” was replaced by “SC:BW” within like a year.
I was late to the party. The only acronym I ever used was SC2.
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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
LOL: laugh out loud, lots of love, loot or lie
League of Legends
first time I experienced LOL was way back, Early 1990s. When AOL was still in 1.x for the Apple. My buddy and I broke into his brothers work computer and were playing around online in the chat rooms. They told us it was Loser On Line and it was a long time before I understood that wasnt what it was… those jerks
I had a kinder experience and was told LOL was Leg of Lamb. That just left me confused.
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It’s not annoying, only quite funny, but every time I see CSM (Chainsaw Man) I can only think of Coño’e su Madre / Cocha’e su Madre (Motherfucker in Latinamerica).
The Linux Kernel has a specific one, whereby DRM doesn’t mean Digital Rights Protection, only thing I could think of.
CS2
Counter Strike 2 or Cities Skylines 2?
Not annoyed but amused. I suffer from IBS. And in my work there are Internal Business Systems. So I suffer from IBS twice.
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
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.
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.
