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arrow-up1130arrow-down1external-linkEngland to diverge from EU water monitoring standardswww.theguardian.comCAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.deEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square30fedilinkcross-posted to: unitedkingdom@feddit.uknewsdom@kbin.social
minus-squarepfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down46·edit-21 year agoit’s fairly obvious from the context EDIT: lol, this discussion is insane. So many downvotes haha, what a bunch of weirdos on lemmy.
minus-squarepfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down10·1 year agobecause the very first sentence speaks of US states, so those acronyms must be for state names?
minus-squareParodper@foros.fediverso.gallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down2·1 year agoI didn’t know US speakers refer to their states by acronyms. We don’t do that in my country.
minus-squarepfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down3·edit-21 year agook. Seems fairly common across the world. In germany it’s common-place as well to use acronyms, sometimes even in speech (mostly for those with longer names like BW for Baden-Württemberg)
minus-squarelulztard@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-21 year agoI have yet to meet someone who says BW. Maybe your social bubble doesn’t encompass the entire nation.
minus-squareDon_alForno@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoWe do say “NRW” at least. Even the news sometimes do. I propably wouldn’t do it in an international forum though.
minus-squaregeissi@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoI have never heard anyone refer to BaWü as BW in speech. The only Bundesland I have ever encountered that is NRW.
minus-squareDon_alForno@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoThough most wouldn’t do that in an international sub with an audience that obviously won’t know the acronyms.
it’s fairly obvious from the context
EDIT: lol, this discussion is insane. So many downvotes haha, what a bunch of weirdos on lemmy.
No? Why would it be?
because the very first sentence speaks of US states, so those acronyms must be for state names?
I didn’t know US speakers refer to their states by acronyms. We don’t do that in my country.
ok. Seems fairly common across the world. In germany it’s common-place as well to use acronyms, sometimes even in speech (mostly for those with longer names like BW for Baden-Württemberg)
I have yet to meet someone who says BW. Maybe your social bubble doesn’t encompass the entire nation.
We do say “NRW” at least. Even the news sometimes do. I propably wouldn’t do it in an international forum though.
I have never heard anyone refer to BaWü as BW in speech.
The only Bundesland I have ever encountered that is NRW.
Though most wouldn’t do that in an international sub with an audience that obviously won’t know the acronyms.