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Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by julianlam on Friday April 08, 2022 @02:15PM (#30960626)
Technically it isn't, since AIM is "AOL Instant Messenger", where AOL happens to also be an acronym, but it isn't America On-Line Instant Messenger, since then it'd be AOLIM.
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Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by drusepth on Friday April 08, 2022 @02:42PM (#30960938)
I wonder if there's a word for these kinds of nested or multi-layer acronyms. Acronyms in acronyms.
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Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by ModernMech on Friday April 08, 2022 @02:44PM (#30960974)
It's like a recursive acronym with a base case, so it terminates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym

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Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by hoosieree on Friday April 08, 2022 @03:23PM (#30961409)
Somebody needs to make a recursive acronym in the shape of the Ackermann function.
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Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by onaworkcomputer on Friday April 08, 2022 @03:45PM (#30961644)
It's not recursive, though -- that would only be true if AOL stood for AIM On-Line.

Maybe "nested acronym" is a better term?

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Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by DougMellon on Friday April 08, 2022 @06:28PM (#30963284)
> Multi-layered acronyms: AIM: "AOL Instant Messenger," in which "AOL" originally stood for "America Online"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym

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