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Re:FOMO is disastrous for company strategies by dan-robertson on Thursday July 28, 2022 @04:17PM (#32269594)
My dictionary has a definition of FOMO which is more nuanced than just spelling out an acronym, and it has a pronunciation which is not just the letters said one at a time.

So in this case I think spelling out the acronym is neither necessary (as articles typically needn’t define moderately well known words) nor sufficient (as the term’s meaning is more than just the expansion of the acronym).

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Re:FOMO is disastrous for company strategies by wizofaus on Thursday July 28, 2022 @06:50PM (#32270986)
Technically (by the original definition anyway) it's not an acronym unless you can pronounce it as a word. Most of what we call acronyms these days are "initialisms". Some of them are almost never used in speech anyway (I don't think I've ever heard anyone say 'FWIW', for instance - it's more 4 syllables than what it stands for!).
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Re:FOMO is disastrous for company strategies by dan-robertson on Friday July 29, 2022 @03:35AM (#32274089)
/ˈfəʊ.məʊ/

Guess it’s an acronym.

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Re:FOMO is disastrous for company strategies by wizofaus on Friday July 29, 2022 @05:29AM (#32274795)
Yes, that was my point - technically it wouldn't be one otherwise.
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