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		rickcecil on July 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Jellyfin: We're Good, Seriously To be perfectly pedantic, it’s an initialization. Acronyms are initializations that can be pronounced as words.

dillydogg on July 22, 2024 [–]

To add to the pedantry, I believe the correct word is initialism.

albert_e on July 22, 2024 | [–]

Therefore the pendatry was not "perfect" as it was claimed above.

One might even argue that it is impossible to be "perfectly pedantic".

layer8 on July 22, 2024 | | [–]

Otherwise known as an oxymoron.

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