# I Pit ILMVI for Complaining Incessantly About Acronyms **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 29, 2021, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-ilmvi-for-complaining-incessantly-about-acronyms/943142 "2021-05-29T01:49:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 57
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-ilmvi-for-complaining-incessantly-about-acronyms/943142/57 "2021-05-29T10:53:13Z")
> [@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. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-ilmvi-for-complaining-incessantly-about-acronyms/943142)._