What is SCD ?

Anselm Lingnau

Message 21441 · 6 Jun 2000 16:47:38 · Fixed-width font · Whole thread

Peter Hastings <xxx@xxx.xx.xx> writes:

> An acronym finder turned up the following :
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> Senior Citizen Discount
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> Sudden Cardiac Death
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> but didn't have the _right_ answer.

Well, these two aren't entirely out of context, though :^| =

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> It did correctly identify RSCDS, though...

Here at a German university people need to differentiate between that =

and `RCDS', which is the `Ring Christlich-Demokratischer Studenten' (the
student arm of the Christian-Democrat (conservative) party).

This is nothing compared to mobile communications, the field where there
are acronyms for some acronyms that are apparently too long.

Anselm
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