Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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The Us army vet I watch calls them attack-ems
The yanks love their acronyms, but I love the fact they pretty much always say the acronym, then because its been forced to sound good they then explain what it means, kind of defeats the point
The Us army vet I watch calls them attack-ems
The yanks love their acronyms, but I love the fact they pretty much always say the acronym, then because its been forced to sound good they then explain what it means, kind of defeats the point
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Isn't that the definition of an acronym though, that they create another word you can say, not particularly that they need to indicate what it's meaning. Eg. NASA is an acronym, but FBI is an initialism.
ATACMS just about makes it as an acronym imo, though you do have to fudge the pronunciation a bit
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Isn't that the definition of an acronym though, that they create another word you can say, not particularly that they need to indicate what it's meaning. Eg. NASA is an acronym, but FBI is an initialism.
ATACMS just about makes it as an acronym imo, though you do have to fudge the pronunciation a bit
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Oh its the point alright.
Its just that often its not good enough that it really gets across what its about so they explain it.
IMO really boils down to how good a chance they get to either (and good point) simply initalise it, or Acronym it.
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Oh its the point alright.
Its just that often its not good enough that it really gets across what its about so they explain it.
IMO really boils down to how good a chance they get to either (and good point) simply initalise it, or Acronym it.
I've seen a great deal of effort put into devising names, and therefore initials, in order to come up with a cool acronym.
The worst effort I have seen (which I was forced to notify to management, despite personally finding it very funny) was: Pupil Assessement and Examinations Development Officer.
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Love it
I've seen the opposite as well.
Decided as a group a project name (was a big project with like 50 people deciding the name on the kick off, amongst other things) and then 6 months later it suddenly was claimed to be an Acronym by someone senior who wasn't at the kick off
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Crimea river
Their main contribution is the use of Miniature navy seals driving the naval drones, working alongside the UK's mini pilots in storm shadows..
LOL...that cannot be real.
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Disgusting
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Russians literally live in another reality. The only women awaiting Russian soldiers in Odessa are ones with Molotov cocktails.
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Disgusting
Whilst the video is highly amusing, the "Not stopping until Berlin" was repeating a saying for victory in WW2. Not that they were invading Germany.
Caporegime
Recruitment videos have always been dripping in propaganda and bs.
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As a decedent of Jute and Celt stock I'm happy she didn't resort to labelling us as 'Anglo Saxons' which seems to be a popular thing to do in Russia for some reason.
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Does that term hold some sort of negative connotation?
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Those filthy saxons
Same ones who burned civilians in Odessa Trade Unions house? Certainly they should be awaiting something.
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I don't know, Russian propaganda seems obsessed with labelling people living in the UK and the white folk in the US as 'Anglo Saxons', just a unusual label to give us (although not wholly inaccurate but it does ignore other large groups that settled here such as Danes, Norseman and the Normans). If I were Cornish, Welsh, Scottish or Irish I might be a bit more offended by it but as I said it's weird take on the UK population, just call us British like the rest of the world does.
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You literally couldn't make it up. It's so ridiculous, it's beyond belief.
Disgusting
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