I Pit ILMVI for Complaining Incessantly About Acronyms

[MrDibble]

@puzzlegal

The board officially discourages foreign language use. Acronyms are basically the same thing.

No, they fucking well aren’t.

@eschrodinger

I often appreciate someone asking, if I don’t know the acronym or abbreviation. And I even appreciate a polite, “hey, please spell it out the first time,” as well.

I don’t appreciate it turning into a hobby horse mini hijack about what terrible form it is. And I don’t think it should apply to technical jargon/terms of art in a field at all. If you don’t understand one of those, I think you can politely ask, or look it up. This should be a place where using the exact right word for something should be the norm.

All of this.

The problem isn’t that ILMVI asks about what an acronym means. The problem is that he’s an obnoxious dick about it.