Stef Walter on Nostr: What does a PIN Number and a PDF Format have in common? They both suffer from RAS ...
What does a PIN Number and a PDF Format have in common? They both suffer from RAS Syndrome, also known as Redundant Acronym Syndrome. It’s when an acronym is followed by a word that is also part of the acronym, and there’s quite a couple of them.
Full details and more examples on Sketchplanations:
https://sketchplanations.com/ras-syndrome Published at
2024-03-11 07:30:32Event JSON
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