• asyncrosaurus@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    CIA is an initialism, not an acronym, since you pronounce each letter individually.

    What you sir are suggesting is a complete erasure of initialisms, and I will not stand for it.

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It wasn’t a real suggestion. A bit of hyperbole and exaggeration due to the pointless debate over jig/gif. We have a long precedent of pronouncing acronyms as initialisms and not enunciating the letters as they were pronounced in their original word. While I think the original argument over jif/gif was for fun, some can’t let it go.