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U.S.A. The land of acronyms...

• sam_goody 5y ago
  One reason the there are no good TTS programs for Hebrew is the overwhelming prevalence of acronyms in modern Hebrew speech. (Another reason is that the potential market is relatively tiny.) I remember feeling that in English, acronyms are barely used..
  • ahpeeyem 5y ago
    Ah yes, we call them BUAs
• moooo99 5y ago
  Trust me, it's not only the U.S. Source: I'm from Germany
  • dmitriid 5y ago
    y'all have nothing on USSR and Russia. There's even a small Twitter trend of posting "when you need English to navigate in Moscow". Se. e.g. https://demotos.ru/sites/default/files/caricatures/2019-10-30-1572446706.jpg https://demotos.ru/sites/default/files/caricatures/2019-10-3...
    • cpursley 5y ago
      Ха! With this exception, Russian metros actually have some of the best signage I've seen anywhere, even that Cyrillic is easy to follow.
• Dyac 5y ago
  Initialisms.
  • kelnos 5y ago
    Initialisms are a subset of acronyms; acronym is accurate here.
    • Jedd 5y ago
      > Initialisms are a subset of acronyms; acronym is accurate here. I believe you have that inverted. An abbreviation is a shortened version of a word or phrase, and encompasses both initialisms and acronyms. An initialism is pronounced one letter at a time. Acronyms are a separate special case - an abbreviation that is pronounceable as a word unto itself.
      • wizzwizz4 5y ago
        > The broader sense of acronym inclusive of terms pronounced as the individual letters (such as "TNT") is sometimes criticized, but it is the term's original meaning[1] and is in common use.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym
• sundvor 5y ago
  The DOA would like a word..
  • sundvor 5y ago
    (for the record that was the Department of Acronyms).