Doesn't even take an extra keystroke and offers none of the ambiguity that misusing a commonly understood acronym does. I don't understand the insistence on acronym usage I've seen taking off in recent years. Best guess is that it's an outgrowth of everyone becoming a smartphone addict.
He's genuinely autistic and I've given him enough shit for being an idiot in the past that he now has a vendetta. It's less pattern recognition and more an antagonistic obsession.
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Used to be we just wrote
Doesn't even take an extra keystroke and offers none of the ambiguity that misusing a commonly understood acronym does. I don't understand the insistence on acronym usage I've seen taking off in recent years. Best guess is that it's an outgrowth of everyone becoming a smartphone addict.
Oh for crying out loud, you're still on this?
Do you seriously expect people to always type out the entirety of terms like "chronic traumatic encephalopathy" when "CTE" will do?
It's one thing to shorten "I don't know" to IDK. That I understand.
But all acronym usage ever? That's what you rebel against, and have for years?
I'm always just impressed whenever someone pays enough attention to associate patterns to specific users.
He's genuinely autistic and I've given him enough shit for being an idiot in the past that he now has a vendetta. It's less pattern recognition and more an antagonistic obsession.