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Re:Many packages suddenly disappeared by badsectoracula on Saturday January 06, 2018 @04:26PM (#16087552)
> New Geometry Representation might be a fine name for a new format, but you're not going to use its acronym.

I might... the acronym doesn't ring any bells and a Google search doesn't show anything special (if anything, it already shows a bunch of other things - including companies and organizations - using the same letters). What is the issue?

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Re:Many packages suddenly disappeared by newfoundglory on Saturday January 06, 2018 @04:42PM (#16087623)
I think they are imagining people trying to pronounce the acronyms ngr and fgt and getting offensive words out of them. I don’t think that would have occurred to me.
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Re:Many packages suddenly disappeared by badsectoracula on Saturday January 06, 2018 @05:02PM (#16087720)
If you didn't mention the "getting offensive words" part it wouldn't even cross my mind as i'd pronounce NGR as En-Gee-Ar :-P.
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