# Intentional misunderstandings of acronyms

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**Created:** [July 10, 2022, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentional-misunderstandings-of-acronyms/967733 "2022-07-10T22:42:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2022, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentional-misunderstandings-of-acronyms/967733/15 "2022-07-11T02:24:46Z")

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Bravo, OP!

This is a playful, yet effective way to highlight the problem with posters employing rarely-used initialisms without first explaining what they stand for.

Your OP asks for _well-known_ initialisms presumably because one needs to know what it stands for in order to make or understand the joke.

That’s just a teensy-weensy bit like the notion that one needs to know what a given initialism stands for in order to understand the post.

Clever and ironic. Nice!

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