Re:Ask HN: Cringe Acronyms
by greggarious on Friday January 13, 2023 @11:56AM
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Neither infra nor algo are “acronyms”.
Webster’s defines an acronym as “a word (such as NATO, radar, or laser) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term”.
It’s a huge pet peeve, as someone between roles, when folks are imprecise in their terminology, especially if it’s a role that will involve writing code rather than say, being a penetration tester…
(Things like… that… require *lateral thinking*, not precision.)
Webster’s defines an acronym as “a word (such as NATO, radar, or laser) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term”.
It’s a huge pet peeve, as someone between roles, when folks are imprecise in their terminology, especially if it’s a role that will involve writing code rather than say, being a penetration tester…
(Things like… that… require *lateral thinking*, not precision.)