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People who say "less" when they mean "fewer" ought to be turned into soup, the soup fed to baboons and the baboons fired into an active volcano. What has you grinding your teeth with rage, and why?

Suggested by Smash Monkey

(, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 14:36)
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In what sense?
Because they have become words? (in which case they shouldn't be capitalised)?

Or because "These are not the acronym's you're looking for"?
(, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 16:46, 2 replies)
I think it's because a true acronym makes a word like laser or scuba
while LCD is just the first part of the name of a really shitty hipster band
(, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 16:50, closed)
^What she said^

(, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 17:02, closed)
Good point.
I was going to use Redundant Initialism Syndrome, but thought that anything with "RIS" in it would cause more confusion here than it cured.
(, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 22:45, closed)
In the sense that they are Initialisms

(, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 16:58, closed)

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