• Mike@awful.systems
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    5 months ago

    It’s just in European. it’s an entirely reasonable assumption that people in this continent with even a passing interest in the world will know what an NGO is (that’s not even European-specific) as well as what the GDPR is. Your argument suggests that people from the US, for instance, should be forbidden from talking about IRAs and the IRS and their 401(k)s and the DMV because those terms mean very little to nothing over here.

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      5 months ago

      No, actually, nothing I said implies that at all. It’s standard for authors in all fields to define their acronyms. And yes, I absolutely expect American authors to define their terms. The fact that we am American I don’t notice that irs is undefined in a given article doesn’t mean that’s permissible.