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0 pointsmdp20213y ago0 comments

> General rule of thumb with communication

So this friend of mine is currently reading a history book in French. Full of acronyms, not recognizable in the current international use. SMI, DTS, OPEP, OTAN, OCDE... (Those should have been spared from localization. If born in English, so they should be preserved; in French, the rest should adapt to that - at least in the acronym.)

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jerf3y ago

If you don't already know, the story of why UTC is the "acronym" for Coordinated Universal Time is short, but fun: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/utc-abbreviation.html I used "UTC" for years without noticing it isn't really an acronym.

mdp2021OP3y ago

...To avoid discussion between English 'CUT' and French 'TUC', a form that does not place the substantive, 'T', neither before nor after the attributes - just in the middle. ("Universal Time, Coordinated [standard]"?) Nice!

philipwhiuk3y ago

> OTAN

Pretty sure that's still on the NATO logo as the initialism of the French translation of NATO.

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