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-down15·5 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.