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Re:European alternatives for digital products by cblconfederate on Monday December 20, 2021 @05:04PM (#29630948)
now i m curious why it is written like that
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Re:European alternatives for digital products by ggambetta on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @03:46AM (#29635363)
"United States" translates literally to "Estados Unidos" in Spanish. Because some rule that sounds unfathomably stupid to me, in Spanish you can turn that into EEUU instead of EU, because both the "E"s and the "U"s are plural ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

There's a few other examples I'm aware of, like FFAA for "Fuerzas Armadas" ("Armed Forces"), but I have the feeling this is an obsolete practice.

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Re:European alternatives for digital products by cblconfederate on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @09:09AM (#29637498)
Looks intuitive to me
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Re:European alternatives for digital products by pessimizer on Monday December 20, 2021 @05:54PM (#29631569)
According to some guy on Quora, it's a way to pluralize initialisms.
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