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What is your least favourite acronym?
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Not me but my spouse hates recursive ones, like GNU. Hates them so much, active vocal expressions of dislike. Anyways the setting I'm making is filthy with recursive acronyms for no reason.
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like?? where did the 'G' even come from??
That's the GNU part, silly
GNU expands to GNU's Not Unix, which includes the acronym GNU, which expands to GNU's Not Unix, which includes the acronym GNU, which expands to ...
I hate those too, it just feels like whoever make them is like "hehe I'm SOOOOO clever hehe" but it's not clever. It's confusing and dumb lol.
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