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minus-squareTattorack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down1·1 month agoWhy, for the love of all the gods, do people keep saying and writing “LCD display”. Tell me what the “D” in “LCD” means! What does the “D” mean, hmmm!?
minus-squareJohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 month agoThe same as the M in ATM machine and N in PIN number, V in HIV virus and C in UPC code! Oh, the dreaded RAS syndrome!. I’m off to read some DC comics.
minus-squarepoddus@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoI will be reporting this to the American Association Against Acronym Abuse!
minus-squareBodilessGaze@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 month agoI’ll remember that the next time I enter my PIN number at an ATM machine.
minus-squareteodorista@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoYou really need to learn about RAS syndrome.
minus-squareinterdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 month agoOk, so what’s up with that LC display. This kind of redundancy creates semantic resilience, thats why we take the type name out of acronyms. Instead, when designing acronyms leave the type name out of it.
minus-squareFourWaveforms@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 month agoit means peDantic
Why, for the love of all the gods, do people keep saying and writing “LCD display”.
Tell me what the “D” in “LCD” means!
What does the “D” mean, hmmm!?
The same as the M in ATM machine and N in PIN number, V in HIV virus and C in UPC code!
Oh, the dreaded RAS syndrome!.
I’m off to read some DC comics.
I will be reporting this to the American Association Against Acronym Abuse!
I’ll remember that the next time I enter my PIN number at an ATM machine.
You really need to learn about RAS syndrome.
Diode?
Display
Ok, so what’s up with that LC display.
This kind of redundancy creates semantic resilience, thats why we take the type name out of acronyms.
Instead, when designing acronyms leave the type name out of it.
it means peDantic