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Because it is so often capitalized, lowercasing it looks like a mistake, it looks exactly like an acronym, Elo was not nearly as famous for anything else, 'ELO'
by gwern 3y ago
Because it is so often capitalized, lowercasing it looks like a mistake, it looks exactly like an acronym, Elo was not nearly as famous for anything else, 'ELO' exists as a real acronym for many other things (eg. Electric Light Orchestra), and you can even easily define pseudo-definitions for it as a backronym - 'expected logistic odds', just off the top of my head.
I host a copy of his book and I still struggle every time to not type 'ELO' instead.
- teo_zero 3y agoYeah, I think we've been flooded by three-letter acronyms for so long that we see them everywhere. It doesn't happen with four letters: you wouldn't write VOLT or WATT.
- lupire 3y agoSpecifically a 2 syllable 3 letter word that doesn't fit a common English pattern (as it's not an English name).