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Why I Sometimes Have To Teach The English How To Write- ( semi- NSFW)
The BBC news website, normally a bastion of brain in a sea of stupid, changed the presentation of acronyms on their website a bit ago. Some upper management wonks there decided that if an acronym could be PRONOUNCED like a word, then they would SPELL it like a word. Thus NASA becomes "Nasa" and FICA becomes "Fica"; while the FBI and IRS do not become "Fbi" and "Irs". I wrote to the editorial staff last year and found out that the fellow who wrote the story I first saw the change in THINKS THAT IT'S A REALLY STUPID CHOICE, AND HE WANTS TO BLUDGEON THOSE WHO FORCED IT ON HIM.
It seems that "Asbo" is an BBC-ized English legal acronym for Anti-Social Behavior Order, ASBO. It may just be me, but doesn't the phrase," breaching an Asbo" sound much like the sort of activity leading to the original charges?
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