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Acronym FAIL
ankhtahr:
I'm always reminded of the GDR (it was gone before I was born, but we learn much about it in school). They had ridiculously long titles, which were still ridiculously long when shortened. Example: Erich Honecker was "Generalsekretär des Zentralkomitees der Sozialistischen Einheitspartei Deutschlands der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik", short "Generalsekräter des ZK der SED der DDR".
Reminds me of a german joke. These guys have an "AküFi". "Abkürzungsfimmel", which roughly translates to "obsessed with acronyms"…
Akima:
PIPA, which makes it hard when I want to search for pipa.
HPV, which is Health Purchasing Victoria, but also Human Papilloma Virus, which causes genital warts, among other things.
Is it cold in here?:
Microsoft used to distribute security notices with the Critical Update Notification Tool.
GarandMarine:
The military's over use of acronyms which are not themselves failures but come together with the rest of the military's unique vocabulary to form a unique language of fail. It is funny to communicate to someone else who knows the dialect and confuse civilians though.
Van donk III:
Probably my favourite. Although very fitting.
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