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Acromyms form words. You mean abbreviations.

MTG it's a trading card game and not some dumb ass politician.

CP does not mean:

• Cyberpunk
• Club Penguin
• Cleft Palate
• Cerebral ~~Policy~~ Palsy
• Conservative Party

If you're on a Unix terminal it means "copy," anywhere else it means what Josh Duggar is into.

Wireless Application Protocol. I can no longer say on my CV that I 'worked on WAP in the early 2000s'.

Apparently BBC no longer means Big Black Chicken

Not annoyed but amused. I suffer from IBS. And in my work there are Internal Business Systems. So I suffer from IBS twice.

Therapy be wild taking CBT for cognitive behavioral therapy when it's been cock and ball torture for so, so long.

"Therapist said I needed CBT. I just walked out. That dude's fucking crazy if he thinks Imma smash my nuts."

BLM

Especially since the Bureau of Land Management is regularly talked about in my field.

I have no issue with the civil rights movement tho

Not annoyed, but i enjoy annoying red hats by taking about how much I appreciate BLM. As soon as they start spouting off I start talking about how we camped on Bureau of Land Management land out west and it was great.

Alternatively, how Brennan Lee Mulligan is a great GM

Also Game Master > General Motors

D2 is either a type of steel or a great game in 8th grade.

LFG used to mean Look For Group in a lot of games. Now it's let's fucking go.

So many people think Mac is an acronym for whatever reason, as in "Do you use MAC or PC?".

I don't know why they think this. It was never formatted that way in any of Apple's marketing materials.

It really annoys me. In my head when I read it I hear "MAC" pronounced in the voice of Gilbert Godfrey.

I'm guessing they're confusing it with MAC addresses? They probably saw the term somewhere and wrongly assumed it had something to do with Apple Macs.

Isis used to be the fake spy agency Archer worked for. Damn those middle-eastern radicals stealing the name!

Another one that came to mind is TF2. I like Titanfall 2 more than Team Fortress 2 but I associate the acronym with Team Fortress 2.

OK, I'll bite. Pedant time.

"BSD" isn't an acronym. It's an initialism.

Acronyms are pronounced as a words rather than reading the letters, and, well, you'd be beatboxing if you pronounced BSD as a word.

I remember being annoyed when PS2 suddenly was a gaming console and not a line of personal computers from IBM.

Yes, I know it's PS2 vs. PS/2 when written out, but no one ever says PS-slash-2 when speaking.

SWIFT is not a programming language it's a trading protocol that runs the global financial markets which I'm working very hard to forget but still it deserves respect.

AC -- alternating current, ass crust

DTF -- downtime failure, discreet time fourier, down to funkyland

SMB -- server message block, some mammamia bros

IANAL -- i am not a lawyer, sure you do

CBT - Clifford Brick Transport. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Cock Ball torture.

FTP: free to play, file transfer protocol

SRS: Serious, sex reassignment surgery, social responsiveness scale, etc

LOL: laugh out loud, lots of love, loot or lie

All the time. Like at some point SC stopped meaning StarCraft and started meaning Splinter Cell. And don't let me get started about the famous roleplaying game PoE. Yes, or course I mean Pillars of Eternity and not Path of Exile.

CS2

Counter Strike 2 or Cities Skylines 2?

LoRa - to me it's Long Range Radio and has been for a decade. It has some fucking AI slop meaning that recently came up, now.

The Linux Kernel has a specific one, whereby DRM doesn't mean Digital Rights Protection, only thing I could think of.

CBT

Cock and Ball Torture and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.

It's weird seeing news articles about the SEC that have nothing to do with college football.

A group of separatist rebels in the Philippines formed the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

MILF, for short.

PDF file must be one of the Most brainrot offenders

DP is Diet Pepsi