Snowwomen@discuss.tchncs.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoMeat flavored with a hint of fruit sounds alright. But fruit flavored with a hint of meat sounds gross.message-squaremessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1166arrow-down16
arrow-up1160arrow-down1message-squareMeat flavored with a hint of fruit sounds alright. But fruit flavored with a hint of meat sounds gross.Snowwomen@discuss.tchncs.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-squareSnowwomen@discuss.tchncs.detoYe Power Trippin' Bastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com•This a new one: Banned for abbreviating New York Times to NYT in a comment.linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44arrow-down15·28 days agoYou didn’t even break that rule, because an abbreviation is when you shortened a word to its first few letters, like ‘Inc.’ for ‘Incorporated’. NYT is an initialism. NASA is an acronym. Neither are abbreviations. linkfedilink
You didn’t even break that rule, because an abbreviation is when you shortened a word to its first few letters, like ‘Inc.’ for ‘Incorporated’.
NYT is an initialism. NASA is an acronym. Neither are abbreviations.