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Re:Fish shell by cnity on Monday May 17, 2021 @09:33AM (#27183178)
Your first example is a recursive acronym (actually a backronym in this case), and is deliberate. That's the trope. Redundancy is usually just incorrect but common use of natural language.

Edit: I'm wrong about WINE being a backronym, but it is a recursive acronym.

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Re:Fish shell by cedilla on Monday May 17, 2021 @09:38AM (#27183224)
> Redundancy is usually just incorrect

How is it incorrect?

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Re:Fish shell by cnity on Monday May 17, 2021 @09:51AM (#27183376)
Perhaps a weaker way of putting it is that it is colloquial, but not proper form.
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Re:Fish shell by afarrell on Monday May 17, 2021 @10:26AM (#27183801)
> not proper form

Which is annoying to those who value form more than function.

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Re:Fish shell by cnity on Monday May 17, 2021 @10:31AM (#27183858)
Sure. I don't have an opinion one way or another and almost certainly "misuse" acronyms.
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