• chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I’m gonna say it. Maybe we don’t use the acronym for a state as the acronym for a public university unrelated to that state? Just saying. Just throwing it out there.

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      1 month ago

      Or follow a general rule of always spelling out the name in the first usage and then using the abbreviation subsequently.

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      1 month ago

      UT is also the common abbreviation for for a newspaper in my area. My initial thought was, “Why do they even distribute in Texas?”

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      30 days ago

      Maybe we shouldn’t expect every site to default to a global audience, and alter titles as necessary for understanding when exposed to a larger audience.