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I hadn't come across this words before. [ret-kon] noun a subsequent revision of an established story in film, TV, video games, or comics.
by TheSpiceIsLife 9y ago
I hadn't come across this words before.
[ret-kon]
noun
a subsequent revision of an established story in film, TV, video games, or comics.
- cperciva 9y agoAnd the possibly illuminating etymology: Retroactive Continuity.
- TallGuyShort 9y agoSee also: Backronym (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym). I don't recall the specific context, but I recall learning about the phrase when a tech company had a fairly inappropriate internal acronym for something that ended up appearing in a published chart, and needed to come up with an appropriate explanation for the acronym that differed from what was originally meant.