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minus-squareCephalotrocity@biglemmowski.winlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up68·edit-23 months agoThis article does that annoying thing where it uses acronyms Initialisms without previously using the full verbiage at least once. BEV - Battery-Electric Vehicle NGDV - Next Generation Delivery Vehicle LLV - Long Life Vehicle
minus-squarePunnyName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up27arrow-down1·3 months agoInitialisms, technically. But thank you nevertheless.
minus-squareGlemek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·3 months agoTIL about initialisms, which are like acronyms but when you pronounce the initial letters individually instead of like a spelled out word. DVD being an initialism, versus SCUBA being an acronym.
minus-squareironhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·3 months agoWho the hell calls a BEV a woman’s name? Bev sounds like you’re shortening Beverly. BEV and you know it’s a vehicle.
minus-squarerebelsimile@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 months agoGood point, why say BEV when you could say BEV
minus-squarehumorlessrepost@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoAnd yet there’s no <initialism> html tag, and it hurts me.
minus-squareHildegarde@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-23 months agoTo translate further: BEV - self explanatory never mind NGDV - Oshkosh Next Generation Delivery Vehicle, The new mail truck that looks like a duck LLV - The Grumman Long Life Vehicle, the classic mail truck. and as a bonus FFV - The Ford-Utilimaster Flexible Fuel Vehicle, the early 2000s mail truck that looks like the LLV that you buy from wish.
minus-squareEmerald@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoTo be fair I immediately assumed NGDV was Next Generation Delivery Vehicle. idk how, I just did
This article does that annoying thing where it uses
acronymsInitialisms without previously using the full verbiage at least once.BEV - Battery-Electric Vehicle
NGDV - Next Generation Delivery Vehicle
LLV - Long Life Vehicle
Initialisms, technically. But thank you nevertheless.
TIL about initialisms, which are like acronyms but when you pronounce the initial letters individually instead of like a spelled out word. DVD being an initialism, versus SCUBA being an acronym.
Eh, BEV could go either way
Who the hell calls a BEV a woman’s name?
Bev sounds like you’re shortening Beverly. BEV and you know it’s a vehicle.
Good point, why say BEV when you could say BEV
TOMATO vs [tʰə̥ˈmeɪɾoʊ]
And yet there’s no <initialism> html tag, and it hurts me.
fixed ty
To translate further:
BEV - self explanatory never mind
NGDV - Oshkosh Next Generation Delivery Vehicle, The new mail truck that looks like a duck
LLV - The Grumman Long Life Vehicle, the classic mail truck.
and as a bonus
FFV - The Ford-Utilimaster Flexible Fuel Vehicle, the early 2000s mail truck that looks like the LLV that you buy from wish.
Wtf
To be fair I immediately assumed NGDV was Next Generation Delivery Vehicle. idk how, I just did