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I don't think it's highly damaging. It's an acronym. Is BBC's name highly damaging?
by DonnieBurger 2y ago
I don't think it's highly damaging. It's an acronym. Is BBC's name highly damaging?
- crtasm 2y agoBBC isn't a great comparison - it's an initialism, not read or said as a word. I can't think of an acronym example though.
- zahlman 2y agoAnd the embarrassing meaning that some might attribute to "BBC" is also an initialism.
- iamkonstantin 2y agoWhy would it be? I can't think of a single meaning of BBC which translates to an insult. GIMP on the other hand has more than one meanings as an insult (not even an acronym).
- mardifoufs 2y agoUhhh BBC also stands for something else, and that second meaning is a very common term on the internet.
- isodev 2y agoDescribing one’s … favourite desert? (HN is American so not sure we can say the word here) doesn’t constitute an insult - people say it all the time irl. But you’re also right that BBC wouldn’t be a good name for a design tool either. Naming things is hard, someone should setup a focus group :)
- Ylpertnodi 2y agoAre you thinking of the Coventry University Netball Team? (again).
- npteljes 2y agoTry this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_(sexual_slang) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_(sexual_slang) Definitely came after the original BBC being established, and definitely is orders of magnitude less known than the sexual slang variant. So yeah, the Gimp comparison doesn't stand, at all.
- alexey-salmin 2y agoYou're laughing but when I worked on a search engine, it was a serious question which videos should we display if the search query is just "BBC". The prudent approach prevailed for a hundred different reasons but online user metrics weren't one of them. Apparently people were not very fond of the British Broadcasting Corporation, especially outside of the angloshpere.