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Re:Plover is a free, open-source stenography engine by celticninja on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:44AM (#27603829)
Either way the acronym is ambiguous at best.
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Re:Plover is a free, open-source stenography engine by jhgb on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @04:01PM (#27609399)
How is IPA ambiguous when talking about pronunciations of words?
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Re:Plover is a free, open-source stenography engine by patmorgan23 on Thursday June 24, 2021 @09:58AM (#27617505)
If someone has no idea what IPA is, how are they supposed to figure it out when there's a bunch of other things that have the same acronym?
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Re:Plover is a free, open-source stenography engine by patmorgan23 on Thursday June 24, 2021 @10:01AM (#27617562)
Also, ALL acronyms are ambiguous. That's why it's best practice to say the actual thing you're talking about then put the acronym next to it the first time it's used.
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Re:Plover is a free, open-source stenography engine by celticninja on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @05:04PM (#27610342)
Well I googled IPA and the first Wikipedia hit (2nd result) was India Pale Ale, which is the acronym I am familiar with.

The first link was to https://ipa.co.uk Web results The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising: IPA

So I think calling it ambiguous is ok, you are if course free to disagree, but what I said wasn't fundamentally incorrect. But it seems like HN has a bee in its bonnet.

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