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Fred Brooker

@jelte @stephaniewalter

who wants to say Personal Identification Number? 🤔

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jelte

@fredbrooker @stephaniewalter nobody, but everyone does want to add either 'number' or (in my country) 'code', so it would probably have been better to choose a name and acronym that doesn't include either of those.

jelte

@fredbrooker @stephaniewalter In my language we say pincode (it's even in the dictionary), probably for the same reason a lot of people say pin number: acronyms tend to become words themselves, losing their direct connection to the original expanded words. Sometimes it then feels more natural to have a disambiguating signifier, in this case number of code, even if it is, strictly speaking, superfluous. I consider it a form of language evolution.

Stef Walter

@fredbrooker @jelte yeah, I think you have them in any language.
For example, "le virus du VIH" (HIV) --> "le virus du Virus de l'Immunodéficience Humaine" in French

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