I’m running into this more and more with BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and Bungo Stray Dogs.

I was wondering if anyone else has run into anything similar?

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    3·
    4 days ago

    I meant that when the ex-soldiers entered the civilian world they brought the idea of acronyms with them. They looked around and created new ones because that’s what they thought was appropriate.

    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      4 days ago

      Also texting on Nokias happened, many were invented to save clicks.

      Furthermore it’s arguably natural for organizations to be abbreviated/initialized and it’s not an American phenomenon, as evidenced by the кгб and фсб; or the YPG, KSB, YPJ; ETC.