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Wow, Americans have a talent to figure out names with catchy acronyms. Where does it come from?
by rad_gruchalski 7y ago
Wow, Americans have a talent to figure out names with catchy acronyms. Where does it come from?
- schoen 7y agoIt's a pretty pervasive practice these days. Here are the ones from 2013: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/congress-acronyms-reins/312565/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/congres... and 2015: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/03/364-bills-that-have-been-introduced-in-congress-ranked-by-acronym-quality/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/03/36... (most of them were not passed into law)
- tracker1 7y agoSometimes they're close to what the intent and letter of the legislation is... in many cases, they're deceptively almost the opposite of what they say.