I often have to search a second time with a category:
In the case of FC and FD, I got way too many results (including “Feeling Cuddly”; no thanks).
But it was in a used car ad, so I tried “FC FD car” and learned that “FC was the chassis code name for the white RX7, FD was the yellow one”… nope, this wasn’t even a Mazda.
Finally tried “FC FD car slang NSFW”, and found out the car I was reading about had FC: “Fücking Corrosion” and FD for ”Fire Damage”.
Maybe that’s why they didn’t want to make it too obvious.
I think all specialized fields have their own thousand different acronyms.
The problem occurs when those in that field forget that normal humans have never encountered 999 of those.
Ooh, I know! We could tag threads with Trigger: Acronyms. (I would avoid those…)
There’s enough unsubstantiated crap on the Internet as it is, and way too many people just accept it at face value because they can’t be bothered to fact check. So, since this site is being inhabited by a core group of intelligent people, I feel it necessary to cite anything I declare as fact. Were I writing a term paper, I wouldn’t leave out all the footnotes and state to the instructor at the end, “Look all this stuff up yourself.”
