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Do bills need clickbaity names to get attention?

• chisleu 8y ago
  You don't sound like a P.A.T.R.I.O.T. (act)
• briandear 8y ago
  Considering many Americans struggle to name the Vice President or Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: yes. I would bet more people could quote lyrics from a Drake song than remember a single sentence in the Declaration of Independece.
• Fezzik 8y ago
  They may not need them but, more and more, “witty” acronyms are being used for bills. Apparently the wordsmiths of Capital Hill have oodles of time for Scrabble-like playtime: https://noahveltman.com/acronyms/ https://noahveltman.com/acronyms/ And my favorite, the COVFEFE ACT... just because... it’s funny: https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-acronyms-titles-trump-congress-covfefe-act-2017-6 https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-acronyms-titles-trump-c...
  • abakker 8y ago
    I don’t think I’ve hear it anywhere else but a guy at work calluses these kind of things “retronyms” for retroactive acronyms. Maybe more common in enterprise tech marketing than law.
    • hopler 8y ago
      It's a backronym. retronym is a different word.