> It's interesting that German also has widespread use of acronyms and they're totally different from the English ones (both in terms of what the acronym is, an

> It's interesting that German also has widespread use of acronyms and they're totally different from the English ones (both in terms of what the acronym is, and which concepts are denoted with an acronym). E.g. WG = shared apartment (Wohngemeinschaft), LKW = truck (Lastkraftwagen), FKK = nudism (Freikörperkultur). I would say, German has abbreviations (not acronyms) due to extremely long compound words. Hence, they are meaningful.