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minus-squarepfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down12·8 months agobecause the very first sentence speaks of US states, so those acronyms must be for state names?
minus-squareParodper@foros.fediverso.gallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down2·8 months agoI didn’t know US speakers refer to their states by acronyms. We don’t do that in my country.
minus-squarepfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down4·edit-28 months agook. Seems fairly common across the world. In germany it’s common-place as well to use acronyms, sometimes even in speech (mostly for those with longer names like BW for Baden-Württemberg)
minus-squarelulztard@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-28 months agoI have yet to meet someone who says BW. Maybe your social bubble doesn’t encompass the entire nation.
minus-squareDon_alForno@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months agoWe do say “NRW” at least. Even the news sometimes do. I propably wouldn’t do it in an international forum though.
minus-squaregeissi@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 months agoI have never heard anyone refer to BaWü as BW in speech. The only Bundesland I have ever encountered that is NRW.
minus-squareDon_alForno@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoThough most wouldn’t do that in an international sub with an audience that obviously won’t know the acronyms.
No? Why would it be?
because the very first sentence speaks of US states, so those acronyms must be for state names?
I didn’t know US speakers refer to their states by acronyms. We don’t do that in my country.
ok. Seems fairly common across the world. In germany it’s common-place as well to use acronyms, sometimes even in speech (mostly for those with longer names like BW for Baden-Württemberg)
I have yet to meet someone who says BW. Maybe your social bubble doesn’t encompass the entire nation.
We do say “NRW” at least. Even the news sometimes do. I propably wouldn’t do it in an international forum though.
I have never heard anyone refer to BaWü as BW in speech.
The only Bundesland I have ever encountered that is NRW.
Though most wouldn’t do that in an international sub with an audience that obviously won’t know the acronyms.