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I see your point as I thought it for a second as well. At the same time, MS is quite a well-known acronym for Multiple Sclerosis even among lay people (anecdata
by mettamage 6y ago
I see your point as I thought it for a second as well. At the same time, MS is quite a well-known acronym for Multiple Sclerosis even among lay people (anecdata: I am a layperson and know no one who has MS).
I know this is a tech/curiosity forum, and that it might be confusing for a second, but I feel a bit "Black Mirrorred" if the acronym MS fully belongs to Microsoft on Hacker News. I'm against giving them that power when it's in conflict with a scientific concept such as Multiple Sclerosis as scientific thinking is part of Hacker News.
With that said, I'm fine with whatever the mods decide, I simply want the mods to have considered my argument.
- nottorp 6y agoJust to nitpick, if you're not a native english speaker MS may not even mean multiple sclerosis to you. In my language the acronym would be "SM". Later edit: and I've never seen the name of the disease acronymed, it's always been in full.
- mettamage 6y agoI'm Dutch and we know it as MS, as we also call it Multiple sclerose [1], so I wasn't aware of that. Good nitpick :) [1] https://www.hersenstichting.nl/hersenaandoeningen/multiple-sclerose-ms/ https://www.hersenstichting.nl/hersenaandoeningen/multiple-s... <-- I know that sourcing this is a bit much, but I figured that some of you non-Dutch speakers might feel whimsical enough to look at some Dutch text for funzies. Or maybe it's just me who looks at random texts of other languages O:)
- ginko 6y agoWell, in my native language SM is something _very_ different. :)
- kinow 6y agoGood point, had no idea what was MS until I read the comments. In my language it's "esclerose múltipla", and have never seen it acronymed.
- BrandoElFollito 6y agoIn French this is obviously different than elsewhere: SEP.